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Aistit / coming to our senses

Paris, London, Berlin, Helsinki and Ghent
From March 2021 to mid-2022

Laure Prouvost
Maison Louis Carré (Paris) & Kunsthalle (Helsinki)

  • Exhibition view of "Softer and rounder so as to shine through your smooth marble" by Laure Prouvost, Salt Galata, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
    Laure Prouvost: Exhibition view of Softer and rounder so as to shine through your smooth marble, Salt Galata, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
  • Exhibition view of "All Behind, We’ll Go Deeper, Deep Down and She Will Say" by Laure Prouvost, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Allemagne, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
    Laure Prouvost: Exhibition view of All Behind, We’ll Go Deeper, Deep Down and She Will Say, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Allemagne, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

b. 1978 in France,

based in Antwerp, Belgium

 

Laure Prouvost uses video, drawing, tapestry, ceramics, photography, performance, and above all, language to create her immersive installations which plunge the viewer into a journey of personal and collective introspection. Words, images, memories, the five senses, everything which appears tangible and reliable is challenged and inverted by the fantastical nature of the ambiguous narratives introduced by the artist.

In 2002, Prouvost received her BFA from Central St Martins, London and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. She also took part in the LUX Associate Programme. Solo exhibitions have been held at venues including  ‘AM-BIG-YOU-US LEGSICON’, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium (2019) Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); BASS Museum, Miami (2018); SALT Galata, Istanbul (2017); Kunstmuseum Luzern (2016); Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2016); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2016); Haus Der Kunst, Munich (2015); New Museum, New York (2014). In 2011 she was awarded the MaxMara Art Prize for Women and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013. Prouvost represented France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The French Pavilion exhibition ‘Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre’ was subsequently on view at the Abattoirs in Toulouse and at the LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (2020).