Marguerite Humeau at Kistefos

This summer, Kistefos presents a new site-responsive installation by Marguerite Humeau, conceived specifically for the museum’s sculpture park. Titled The Garden of Resuscitation (2026), the work unfolds across sculpture, ecology, ritual and time.

Through a series of sculptural interventions and seasonal processes, Humeau transforms the southern forest bordering the river at Kistefos into an artwork itself. Shaped by interdependence, regeneration and collective experience, the evolving installation seeks to revive a relationship with the forest that may have been forgotten.

The project reconstructs the life of a spruce tree in reverse, following what the artist describes as a ‘journey from the dead’, moving backwards from industrial paper production into the living forest from which the tree originated. The work traces a speculative cycle of regeneration through roots, fungi, plants, river currents, and interdependent species, proposing an alternative understanding of the forest as a sentient, metabolising entity.