#129: Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost’s artistic output consistently returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. A strong narrative impulse propels her practice, resulting in immersive, transmedial installations with interwoven story lines that combine fiction and reality. Her videos, installations, paintings and tapestries unhinge commonplace and expected connections between language, image, and perception. Stepping away from traditional linear narratives, the artist crafts sensual environments laden with playful mistranslation that open a space for the viewer to grapple with the unstable relationship between imagination and reality. The elasticity of the written word comprises a central element of Prouvost’s practice, stating: “Words for me are very visually powerful, because with words people create their own vision. I am just hinting and suggesting possibilities, the audience is making its own image in its head. It is also about misunderstanding, misinterpreting, miscommunicating – words also suggesting failure and other senses.”

Laure Prouvost will be present and show:

This Voice is a Whale, 2014, sound piece, 0:42 min
Lick in the Past, (L.A.), 2016, video, 8:25 min
How to Leave Traces, 2022, video, 3:29 min
This Voice is a Big Lips, 2014, sound piece, 0:38 min
Wantee, 2013, video, 14:23 min
Stong Sory Vegetable, 2010, video, 3:21 min
OWT, 2007, video, 3:20 min
Dit Learn, 2017, video, 15:22 min
Taking Care (Love Letter to Fellow Art Work), 2019, video, 3:23 min
This Voice is Sunshine on Your Face, 2013, sound piece, 1:09 min
Four For See Beauties, 2022, video, 15:14 min

Laure Prouvost (b. 1867, Lieumeconu, France) Lives and works. Here a long list of museums and institutions. A line, interesting things, a coma, a line, a list of residencies and prizes. A selection of solo projects including: a flying grandma in Oslo, Esmé Blue in Busan, Helsinki and Madrid, an elastic arm hold in tight in Copenhagen, a Swallowing and Breathing in Eindhoven, a Smoking Mother in Copenhagen, a Melting Into Another in Lisbon and Sonsbeek, an Occupied Paradise in Aalst, Deep See Blue Surrounding You in Venice, Toulouse and Lille; a Waiting Room with objects in Minneapolis, a New Museum for Grand dad in Milano, A tearoom for grand ma in Derry, a karaoke room in Brussels, a new octopus ink vodka bar for Gregor in Rotterdam, A travel agency for an Uncle in Frankfurt, a lobby for love among the artists in the Hague and Luzern… tea bags, and wet floors and tentacles.

pic: Laure Prouvost – For Four See Beauties, 2022 (film still), courtesy of the artist, Galerie Obadia, Carlier | Gebauer, Lisson Gallery © Laure Prouvost