Laure Prouvost

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You are the only one, Über den Dilettantismus, Halle 14, Leipzig
© LAURE PROUVOST

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exhibition view from Farfromwords, at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, 2013
© LAURE PROUVOST. photography: STEPHEN WHITE

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Ideally this sign would take you in its arms, 2010
oil, collage and varnish on wooden panel, 25 x 29 cm
image courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL

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all these things think link, at Flattime House London, 2010

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Idealy this room would be 5 times bigger, 2010
oil, collage and varnish on wooden panel, 25 x 29 cm
image courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL

IT, HEAT, HIT, 2010 
0.26 mins exerpt of 6 mins (surround sound)
© LAURE PROUVOST

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A splash of red paint in your face, 2010
oil, collage and varnish on wooden panel, 25 x 29 cm
image courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL

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installation views and detail from:
Why does Gregor never rings? shut your lips, somewhere under that bridge lies the hole truth…
(THE WANDERER SEQUENCE 5)
at MOTINTERNATIONAL, 2012

images courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL, London

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detail from The Artist, installation , 2010
image courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST

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Before, before. Before it was, the title sequence, spinning before next, a squid,
installation view at MOTINTERNATIONAL London, 2011
images courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL, London

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Ideally these vegetables would fly into the sky, 2011
oil, collage and varnish on wooden panel, 25 x 29 cm
image courtesy of LAURE PROUVOST & MOTINTERNATIONAL

LAURE PROUVOST is a French artist now based in London whose work includes film, performance and installation. Using humor and irreverence, her projects reveal stories and fictions which are loosely themed around the notion of gaps in language, translation, experience, or with ideas around space.

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.

Good news: she is one of four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize this year. It includes artists TINO SEHGAL, DAVID SHRIGLEY, LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE and LAURE PROUVOST. The winner will be announced on December 2, 2013.

Meanwhile her work is currently part of the exhibition Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain, London until May 12, 2013.

 

 



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