Laure Prouvost
dal 7/4/2011 al 20/5/2011
Segnalato da
7/4/2011
Laure Prouvost
Motinternational, London
Having embarked on a year long project to produce a film based on Rory Macbeth's The Wanderer, itself a mistranslation of Kafka's Metamorphosis, Prouvost has created an ambitious new installation which grounds itself in a form of prologue to the film.
"it's before before... she doesn't know why she is here... Gregor, where are you?... Wet it's so wet... our language was escaping us spinning around everything was broke... spinning breaking all the wooden panel... don't look at the mirror... Gregor, Gregor... she spilt all her beer on the walls... it has not even started... the room was getting smaller... Gregor was walking on cans of beer. she's there behind you... she came in took three steps and left... He was gone... the squid threw ink everywhere... she doesn't know what is happening."
He woke with a start, he did not remember where he was, it seemed to be the same place as before but something was different. He didn't feel quite himself and the voice in his head was female, perhaps french or something. Nothing seemed to make sense and a haze of confusion hung behind his eyes. From what he could make out he was in a room containing a number of hinged panels, the light was green, like damp foliage and that same voice permeated everywhere.
MOTINTERNATIONAL is pleased to present the first exhibition of gallery artist Laure Prouvost. Having embarked on a year long project to produce a film based on Rory Macbeth's "The Wanderer", itself a mistranslation of Kafka's "Metamorphosis", Prouvost has created an ambitious new installation which grounds itself in a form of prologue to the film. Through a cacophony of sound, image and objects Prouvost creates the surreal narrative of Jenny as she seeks Gregor, in a world of broken mirrors, misunderstandings and confusion in which the audience is both a participant and foil to Jenny's quest, sending her drunk and spinning out of control. The only things holding the narrative together are a series of story-boards, drawing a line between the separate elements. Prouvost has increasingly developed work that spills out of the frame of her previous medium of film. Her installations aim to create a portal to her cinematic environments, breaking free of their frames, becoming a celebration of imperfection and conjuring a state before we can talk about anything. Laure Prouvost lives and works in London.
Recent solo exhibitions include; "Art Now Lightbox: Laure Provost: It, heat", hit at Tate Britain, London, 2010; "All These Things Think Link", Flat Time House, London, 2010; Frieze Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2010; Present Future, Artissima Art Fair, Turin, 2010; "Storeybored", After the Butcher, Berlin, 2009 and "Burrow Me", Lighthouse, Brighton, 2009.
Her work has been included in Department of Wrong Answers, Wysing Arts Centre; Between Here and There, Calder Foundation, New York, 2011; Museum of Speech, Extra City-Kunsthal Antwerpen, Belgium, 2011; More Pricks Than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2010; Strong Sory, Look Gallery, Budapest, 2010; International Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany, 2010; Avec Excoffon, IFF Galerie, Marseille, France, 2010 and The Know Unknows, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2009.
In 2010 Prouvost was awarded the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Principal Prize and received a Film London Artists' Moving Image Network award (FLAMIN) in 2011. She has been nominated for the MaxMara Art Prize for Women, 2011.
Opening: 8 April 2011 - 18:00
MOT International
Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studios / 8 Andrews Road E8 4QN London
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment