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. Her largest exhibition yet opens today at the museum of contemporary art. This ambitious citywide series of posters will takeover advertising sites across all 270 london underground stations will be her first uk public commission. People laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the venice biennale, wants you to know shes a bigtime liar. Laure prouvost, max mara art prize for women, whitechapel gallery 20 march 7 april 20 laure prouvost presents a twopart installation inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of italy. French artist laure prouvost surprise winner of turner. The turner prizewinning artist laure prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixedmedia installations. Laure prouvost to produce new art on the underground. Known for her immersive and mixedmedia installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, prouvost s work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. The artist book book works artists books laure prouvost, fraser muggeridge on. Laure prouvost laure prouvost uses the irresistible pull of the narrative tradition within film to seduce and entertain the viewer with witty and mesmerising juxtapositions of text and image. Graeme robertson for the guardian prouvost, 35, is a french artist but studied in london at goldsmiths and. The latest news and comment on artist laure prouvost may 2019 the glastonbury of art. A lecture by artist and 20 turner prize winner laure prouvost, whose first u.
Laure prouvost s surreal, mazelike installation dedicated to her grandfather in milans pirelli hangarbicocca. The frenchbritish artist laure prouvost has been commissioned by art on the underground to create a major new artwork. Laure prouvost installation and video artist youtube. The latest news and comment on artist laure prouvost. Join french visual artist laure prouvost and hirshhorn assistant curator betsy johnson as they discuss prouvosts multimedia practice, which explores the blurred relationships between language and meaning, and fiction and reality. Language in its broadest sense permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of laure prouvost.
Laure prouvost wins turner prize 20 art and design. Trespassing allowed at laure prouvosts secret parisian garden of delights. In this project she uses the material format and expectations of the artist book as a means to make new work. Biography and art, auction, artworks, interview, statement, website. This volume takes its name from antwerpbased french artist laure prouvost s born 1978 first major solo exhibition in italy, gathering over 15 worksinstallation, videos and projections, sculptures and found objectsas a museum dedicated to prouvost s grandfather. Laure prouvost, the artist representing france in the. Laure prouvost, an artist of theories and influences the. 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. 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 share the artist s psychological experience. Actress saoirse ronan announced the award at a ceremony in derry last night. The artists biography that opens laure prouvost s the artist book is, like her films, an exercise in translation and reception, authorship and authority.
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