Laure prouvost artists profile the saatchi gallery. The artists biography that opens laure prouvosts the artist book is, like her films, an exercise in translation and reception, authorship and authority. The gallery space will be transformed into a subterranean travel agency, deep travel ink, 2016 with ambiguous function, purported to belong to the artists uncle. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. Eager to see the art in laure prouvosts first solo exhibition at lisson. Owt, 2007, film still in many of her films the french artists voice. After receiving the max mara prize for women 2011, prouvost was the first french artist to win the prestigious turner prize for contemporary british artists andor living in greatbritain. Installation artist laure prouvost is named the winner of the 20 turner prize at an awards ceremony in londonderry, the uk city of culture 20. Laure prouvost explores the processes of narrative, translation and reflection, and the substantial miscommunications, cultural slippages, inventive. We caught up with artist and filmmaker laure prouvost in her studio to discuss her work, which launches the icas national moving image programme in january. Prouvost s, by contrast, is a mischievous pickandmix of ironic art speak in the artist, pointing to a scribble on a page, the narrator tells us, its a conceptual piece. Known for her immersive and mixedmedia installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, prouvosts work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation.
Swallow all works 20, the central video of this twopart installation, is a meditation on pleasure, seen through the eyes of a hypothetical aesthete on the. This installation, deep see blue surrounding you, is the work of the artist laure prouvost, who. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Ai weiwei and laure prouvost doesnt try to make sense, but does. Additional support provided by leni and david moore, jr. Karen archey is curator of contemporary art, timebased media.
Laure prouvosts terse, mischievous shaggydog stories are well suited to. The turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixedmedia installations. Laure prouvost, ideally some big shelf with beautiful books be. For her inaugural new york exhibition, laure prouvost presents an immersive installation. Artist laure prouvost is exhibiting a new work, farfromwords, at londons whitechapel gallery. French artist laure prouvost poses with her work wantee, a video installation set in a mock tea party, after she was announced as the winner of the 20 turner prize. Her installation wantee, for instance, which earned her. Laure prouvost artist bio and art for sale artspace. Laure prouvost born 1978 is a french artist living and working in antwerp, belgium. Laure prouvost seduces at whitechapel gallery video. French artist laure prouvost has been named winner of this years turner prize for a video of a tea party. Prouvost told me that her film has veered so far from macbeths book that it. The solo exhibition gdm grand dads visitor center by laure prouvost, is a gesamtkunstwerk that brings together over fifteen works, including installations, videos and projections, sculptures and found objects.
Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 art and design. Turner prize 20 won by laure prouvost with video of tea. Former turner prize winner laure prouvost invites authorjess saxbyauthor into her antwerp studio to talk wordplay and social media delusion ahead of her lisson gallery show opening in new york. Laure prouvost was born in lille, france and works in london. Language in its broadest sense permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of laure prouvost. In 2002, she received her bfa from central st martins, london and studied towards her mfa at goldsmiths college, london. Turner prize 20 nominee laure prouvost uses the idea of the artists book as biography, juxtaposing formal devices with mininarratives, images, and additional handwritten notes. Laure prouvost to produce new art on the underground commission.
She lives and works in london, uk and antwerp, belgium. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice. Y ou must stoop to access laure prouvosts antwerp studio. I went to the betting shop this afternoon, says laure prouvost, to put a bet on the turner prize.
A french artist who examines our relationship with the past using the technology of the instagram generation has been named the surprise winner of the turner prize. French artist laure prouvost has won the max mara art prize for women for her film and installation work. The first experience of laure prouvosts work can be unforgettable. The turner prizewinning artists doorway is only chest high, like the entrance to a wendy house. Entering laure prouvosts studio in east london, which she has sublet for the past five years, i am taken aback by its modesty of scale. Mellon foundation, the national endowment for the arts, and the william and nadine mcguire commissioning fund. Provost was the winner of the principle prize at the 2011 oberhausen short film festival. Or, rather, an exercise in mistranslation and obfuscation, authorlessness and with a nod to georges bataille, who unwittingly provides the books cover formlessness.
Laure prouvost to produce new art on the underground. French artist laure prouvost speaks to adrian searle about her new twopart installation at whitechapel gallery in london. Her first impulse was to cover the london underground in breasts but instead the turner prizewinner is urging commuters to pick up shovels. I am mostly looking to bring a bit of weirdness to the world. Prouvost, winner of the max mara art prize for women, discusses swallow.
Laure prouvost the parle ment mirror stick man standing. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice biennale, wants you to know shes a bigtime liar her largest exhibition yet opens today at the museum of contemporary art. A rising star in the global art world, the french, londonbased artist laure prouvost is recognized for her confounding nonlinear films and immersive environmental installations. Laure prouvost installation and video artist youtube. Laure prouvost, wantee, 20, installation view, kunstmuseum lucerne, 2016. Whitewall magazine pariss galerie nathalie obadia has announced that it added the french, ukbased video artist laure.
This is a special limited edition of the artist book, each with a unique artwork, sized and folded like a dust jacket for the special hardback version of the book. French artist laure prouvost opens her largest show ever at the. The grandfather, a conceptual artist, did more than just invite people to tea, however. A rising star in the global art world, the french, londonbased artist laure prouvost is recognized for.
To construct a biography in which the formal structures and chapter divisions develop a narrative, into which the self dissolves. This ambitious citywide series of posters will takeover advertising sites across all 270 london underground stations will be her first uk public commission. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the. The latest news and comment on artist laure prouvost may 2019 the glastonbury of art. Graeme robertson for the guardian prouvost, 35, is a french artist but studied in london at goldsmiths and. And so begins owt 2007, a film that laure prouvost made shortly before she. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the persons given names to the link. Laure prouvost was born in 1978 in croixlille, france. Her work has featured in solo exhibitions including art now lightbox at tate britain, london 2010, frieze frame at frieze art fair, london 2010 and burrow me at lighthouse, brighton 2009.
Laure prouvost was born in lille, france and is currently based in antwerp. In 2008, two years after the british conceptual artist died, it was transformed into a public gallery and includes an archive devoted to him. French artist laure prouvost moved to london aged 18. The artist book, laure prouvost, book works motto distribution. They are waiting for you is made possible with generous support from the andrew w. Yet, much like classic structuralist film, prouvost. The frenchbritish artist laure prouvost has been commissioned by art on the underground to create a major new artwork. Multidisciplinary art sensation laure prouvost will. The artists surreal installation is the talk of the venice biennale. In her current show, laure prouvost, a frenchborn artist who won the turner prize in 20, combines the punchy urgency of movie trailers with ideas derived from film and literary and.
Her largest exhibition yet opens today at the museum of contemporary art. The londonbased french artist who won the turner prize in 20 is glad success didnt find her before her 30s. In this project she uses the material format and expectations of the artist book as a means to make new work. A lecture by artist and 20 turner prize winner laure prouvost, whose first u. Humour can be a means of saying things that are harder to articulate. You could have made a tidy sum, i say, backing yourself to win at 61. Prouvosts grandfather lived in a house in london that was once the setting for illustrious tea parties with kurt schwitters and the two mens partners. An artist on the magical importance of a 15yearold tea. Laure prouvost, you are deeper than what you think, art on the underground. Laure prouvost, an artist of theories and influences the. Trespassing allowed at laure prouvosts secret parisian garden of delights. Laure prouvost would like you to imagine that this interview is taking.
In 2019, she represented france at the venice biennale with the multimedia work the deep blue sea surrounding you. Turner prizewinner laure prouvost is finally represented. There, a couple of weeks after the venice vernissage, a piece of paper that. Laure prouvosts terse, mischievous shaggydog stories are well suited to flat time house, the south london home of the late john latham. Here, the turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost explains the role of tea in her work and life through a 15yearold tea bag once used by her grandparents partly fictional characters central. Laure prouvost was the rank outsider from a particularly strong 20 shortlist that included the higherprofile artists tino seghal and david shrigley. Making it together laure prouvosts eathbound commons flash art. Laure prouvost, the hepworth, wakefield the wanderer betty drunk, art exchange, colchester it heat hit, black box gallery part of fourth wall series, vox populi, philadelphia the artist and the bunker, shanaynay, paris images festival, toronto film.
The weird conceptual universe of the artist laure prouvost. Interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images, and meaning, she has said that in her works fiction and reality get really tangled. People laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice biennale, wants you to know shes a bigtime liar. In translating video, painting and sound onto the printed pages prouvost instills the object with emotion and a sensorial selfawareness, and invites the reader to. Laure prouvost is a contemporary french artist known for her multimedia installations and performances. Laure prouvosts work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized. Born in 1978 in france and being a french artist living in london, laure prouvost frequently thematizes language and communication in her video work, exploring the capacity of words to express concepts and the ability of sounds to articulate emotion.
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