Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France (1978) and currently lives in Brussels. She received her BFA from Central St Martins, London in 2002 and studied for her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. She participated in the LUX Associate Program. Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and received the Turner Prize in 2013.

Language - in the broadest sense of the word - permeates Laure Prouvost's video, sound, installation and performance work. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in a humorous and idiosyncratic way, Prouvost's work is about miscommunication and ideas that are lost in translation. Prouvost plays with language as a tool for the imagination and is interested in confusing linear stories and expected associations between words, images, and meaning. She combines existing and imagined personal memories with artistic and literary references to create complex film installations that cloud the distinction between fiction and reality. Seductive and shocking at the same time, her approach to filmmaking uses layered narration, rapid editing, editing and puns and is composed of a rich, tactile range of images, sounds, spoken and written phrases. The videos are often shown in immersive environments that include found objects, sculptures, paintings and drawings, plates, furniture, and architectural assemblies that are made complicit in the overall story of the installation. (lisson gallery text)