Nicolas Provost. Papillon d’amour
Papillon d’amour, 3′30”, 2003
music: The Wrath of Köhn by Köhn AKA Jürgen De Blonde
producer: NICOLAS PROVOST
courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
–
Over the past decade, artist and filmmaker Nicolas Provost has carefully shaped a body of work that explores the quirks of human expectation by playing with images from film, literature, and popular culture that are ingrained in our collective memory. His works are in a number of collections, including The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, SMAK Ghent and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His work has earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, The Venice Film Festival, The Berlinale, The San Sebastian Film Festival and The Locarno Film Festival. His critically acclaimed feature film ‘The Invader’ had it’s world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011. He recently completed the ‘Plot Point’ trilogy, 3 fiction films he shot with a hidden camera in New York, Las Vegas and Tokyo.
Good news: his fourth solo exhibition at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp is currently on view until March 15, 2014
–
comments are closed !