Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a

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artist living and working in

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. She won the 2013

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. In 2019, she represented France at the

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with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You".

Career

Prouvost was born in Croix, an upscale suburb of

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, France, and attended a local school with a strong arts focus. She studied film at Central Saint Martins and also attended

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. 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". She has exhibited at

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and the

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. She was awarded the biennial MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and her work has appeared in the private contemporary art collection

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, Italy. Prouvost's work combines installation, collage and film. Prouvost was the principal prize winner at the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival In 2014, she staged her first solo museum exhibition in the United States at the

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, titled ''For Forgetting''.

2013 Turner Prize

Prouvost won the 2013,

winner for an installation named ''Wantee'' made in response to the artist

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. In a tea party setting a film describes a fictional relationship between Prouvost's grandfather and Schwitters. The work is named in reference to the habit of Schwitters' partner of asking guests if they "want tea". The panel described the work as "outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment". Prouvost was generally considered a surprise winner. In 2018, she created an installation for the Palais de Tokyo in

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titled ''Ring Sing and drink for Trespassing''. 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

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. 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.

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

References

External links

www.laureprouvost.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prouvost, Laure 1978 births Living people People from Croix, Nord Alumni of Central Saint Martins Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London French contemporary artists French expatriates in the United Kingdom Turner Prize winners French women artists

Career

2013 Turner Prize

Selected works

References

Further reading

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