Laure Prouvost
dal 24/6/2015 al 25/10/2015
Segnalato da
24/6/2015
Laure Prouvost
Musee departemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
We Will Go Far (On ira loin). Her artistic output constantly returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. The selection of work on show underscores these elements that have characterised her work since the mysterious disappearance of her grandfather.
Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 2013, her artistic output constantly returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. The selection of work on show at Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art underscores these elements that have characterised her work since the mysterious disappearance of her artist grandfather (the central figure of Wantee, 2013). Laure Prouvost's most emblematic works can be seen here plus a new commission especially made for Rochechouart Castle, The Smoking Image, inspired by her current interest in adolescence and travel.
Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, based in London and Antwerp) structures her work as independent story strands that weave and intersect from piece to piece, creating an amalgam combining fiction and reality. The resulting work often takes the form of immersive installations made up of films, objects, collages and narrative fragments sometimes specifically implicating visitors. In The Smoking Image, Laure Prouvost has researched and imagined a story about teenagers living in the countryside, experiencing their first amorous adventures, dreaming of escaping, striking out on their own and for whom a scooter provides the path to freedom and independence. Visitors traverse the teenagers' world as they move through the castle roof gallery, finally reaching a "motorcycle-tapestry" which serves as a screen for the projection of the film shot in Rochechouart.
The present exhibition "We Will Go Far" and especially The Smoking Image constitute a new chapter in Laure Prouvost's investigation into the fuzziness of identity, communication between individuals, over-abundance of images, dream worlds and on everyone's right to retreat into their imagination. Parallel to this exhibition, Laure Prouvost is working on another show on the closely related theme of adolescence and cars at the Fahrenheit Foundation in Los Angeles (winter 2015-16). Both stories would be combined into a catalogue to be published.
Image: The Smoking Image, 2015
Press contacts:
Annabelle Ténèze director and exhibition curator ateneze.musee@cg87.fr
Ollivier Prigent oprigent.musee@cg87.fr
Opening: 25th June at 7 PM
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart
87 600 Rochechouart France
Hours: Wednesday–Monday 10am–12:30pm and 1:30–6pm
Individual prices :
Full price : 4,60 €
Reduced price : 3.00 €
Free for the under-18s and on the 1st Sunday in March, April, May, June, September, October, November and December.