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Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost

French artist

Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You".[1]

British Art Show 8 at Leeds Art Gallery, 7 October 2015 by Laure Prouvost
Prouvost photographed in 2010

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Career

Prouvost was born in Croix, an upscale suburb of Lille, France, and attended a local school with a strong arts focus.[2][3] She studied film at Central Saint Martins and also attended Goldsmiths, University of London. After graduating from Saint Martins, she worked as an assistant to the artist John Latham, who she describes as "more like a grandfather than my real grandfather".[4] She has exhibited at Tate Britain[5] and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She was awarded the biennial MaxMara Art Prize for Women[6] in 2011, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and her work has appeared in the private contemporary art collection Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy.[7] Prouvost's work combines installation, collage and film.

Prouvost was the principal prize winner at the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival[8] In 2014, she staged her first solo museum exhibition in the United States at the New Museum, titled For Forgetting.[9]

2013 Turner Prize

Prouvost won the 2013, Turner Prize winner for an installation named Wantee made in response to the artist Kurt Schwitters. In a tea party setting a film describes a fictional relationship between Prouvost's grandfather and Schwitters.[10] The work is named in reference to the habit of Schwitters' partner of asking guests if they "want tea".[11] The panel described the work as "outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment".[12] Prouvost was generally considered a surprise winner.[3]

In 2018, she created an installation for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris titled Ring Sing and drink for Trespassing.[13]

In 2021, she presented a video installation titled ‘They Parlaient Idéale ’ as part of a group exhibition titled ‘Fire In My Belly’ at Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin. The film reflects on what it means to be a citizen of a nation, especially when one's identity is rather ambiguous, by documenting a cross-generational and interracial cast of performers embarking on a road trip from Grigny, a suburb of Paris, to the French pavilion at the Venice Biennial.[14]

Selected works

  • 2007 : Owt, video
  • 2010 : I need to take care of my conceptual Grand dad, video
  • 2010 : The Artist, video
  • 2010 : It Heat Hit, video
  • 2011 : The Wanderer, video
  • 2012 : Why does Gregor never rings, video installation
  • 2013 : Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, video installation
  • 2013 : Wantee, video installation
  • 2016: We would be floating away from the dirty past, video installation
  • 2016 : Lick in the Past, video
  • 2017 : Dit Learn, video

Other activities

In 2018, Prouvost was a member of the jury that selected Helen Cammock as winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.[15]

References

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    "Laure Prouvost is Digging a Tunnel Between the French and British Pavilions at the Venice Biennale". 8 May 2019.
  2. [2]
    "La Française Laure Prouvost remporte le prestigieux Turner Prize". Le Petit Journal. 3 December 2013.
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    "In Surprise Win, Laure Prouvost Takes Turner Prize". New York Times. 3 December 2013.
  4. [4]
    Wright, Karen (20 September 2013). "In the studio: Laure Prouvost, film and installation artist - Features - Art - The Independent". The Independent. London: INM. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
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    "Wantee and Friends | Tate". tate.org.uk. 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
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    Laure Prouvost. Farfromwords, Car mirrors eat rasperries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells..., catalogue of the exhibition, 2013, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara in collaboration with Whitechapel gallery.
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    "BBC News - Laure Prouvost wins women's art prize". bbc.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  8. [8]
    "Frieze Magazine | Archive | Focus: Laure Prouvost". frieze.com. 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013. principal prize winner at the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival.
  9. [9]
    Rosenberg, Karen (20 February 2014). "Laure Prouvost Exhibition Opens at New Museum - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  10. [10]
    Higgins, Charlotte (2013). "Turner prize 2013: a shortlist strong on wit and charm | Art and design | theguardian.com". theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  11. [11]
    "Laure Prouvost wins Turner prize 2013". The Guardian. 2 December 2013.
  12. [12]
    "BBC News - Turner Prize 2013: Laure Prouvost wins £25,000 prize". bbc.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  13. [13]
    Adler, Laure (2019). The trouble with women artists : reframing the history of art. Viéville, Camille,, Robinson, Kate (English-language ed.). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-020370-0. OCLC 1090006696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. [14]
    "They Parlaient Idéale | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  15. [15]
    Claire Selvin (16 April 2018), ARTnews.

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