Every Sunday, Grand Ma
Grandma grows a pair of wings and transforms into a human bird. She steps out of the darkness of a tunnel into a desolate misty landscape. She is above clouds, floating into where birds soar, above ground as bodies in levitation. The video tickles our senses and emotions towards loosing sense of gravity.
Entangled Shadows
“Little [gasp] little, little caresses. We are quantum caresses.
[Um, pop, exhale, gasp]
Mmmmmm.
[Gasp]
She was here, ready to smoke it all, swallow it all.
No, we can’t, we won’t sell our shadows.”
Biography
Born in 1978 in Croix-Lille, Laure Prouvost lives and works between Brussels and London.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins (London, 2002) and a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College (London, 2010), Laure Prouvost is one of the most well-known artists on the contemporary international art scene. Laure Prouvost represented France at the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennial in 2019.
In 2020, Laure Prouvost has been invited to participate to the Sydney Biennial NIRIN curated by Brook Andrew. Some traveling exhibitions of the French Pavilion of the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennial (2019) were planned to les Abattoirs (Toulouse, France) and at the LAM Villeneuve d’Ascq (Lille, France).
The large-scale installation “Nest In You” was presented in 2024 at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris (France), marking the first gallery exhibition of this work, following successive shows between 2022 and 2024 at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo (Norway), the Moody Arts Center in Houston (United States) and the DePont Museum in Tilburg (Netherlands). The “Oma-je” exhibition has been on show at the Phi Foundation in Montreal (Canada). In 2025 Laure Prouvost has a solo exhibition at the MUCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée), the Chapelle de la Vieille Charité, and the [mac] Musée d’art contemporain de la Ville de Marseille (France).
She has had significant solo exhibitions in prestigious institutions, including at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark, 2021), at the Kunsthalle Lissabon (Portugal, 2020), at the MUHKA (Belgium, 2019), at the Palais de Tokyo with “RING SING AND DRING FOR TRESPASSING” (France, 2018), at the Bass Museum (USA, 2018), the Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2017), at the Consortium (Dijon, 2016), at the MMK Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt, 2016), at the Kunsthall Luzern (Luzern, 2016), at the Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing, 2016), at the FLAX Foundation Fahrenheit (Los Angeles, 2016), at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart (Rochechouart, 2015), at Haus der Kunst Munich (Munich, 2015), at the New Museum (New York, 2014), at the Whitechapel Gallery, at Tate Britain (London, 2013), at the Institute for Contemporary Art (London, 2013), and at the Tate Britain (London 2010).
Laure Prouvost was awarded the Turner Prize in 2013, the Max Mara Prize for Women in 2011, the Prize Winner of the 56th, 57th and 62nd Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 2010 and 2011 as well as the EAST International Award in 2009. In 2016, she was distinguished as Knight of the Ordre National du Mérite, and in 2019 she was distinguished as Officer of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Prestigious public and private collections house the works of Laure Prouvost, such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA), the Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing, China), the Kunsthal Luzern (Luzern, Switzerland), the Maramotti Collection (Reggio Emilia, Italy), the Morra Greco Foundation (Naples, Italy), the Videoinsight Collection (Turin, Italy), la Sandretto Collection (Turin, Italy), The Arts Council (London, United Kingdom), The Withworth Collection (Manchester, United Kingdom), The Contemporary Art Society (London, United Kingdom), The Saatchi Collection (London, United Kingdom), The Zabludowicz Collection (London, United Kingdom), The Cranford Collection (London, United Kingdom), the MAC/VAL (Vitry sur Seine, France), the Kadist Foundation (Paris, France), the Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC, Paris, France), the FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon, France), the FRAC Champagne Ardennes (France), the Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart (Rochechouart, France) the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (Monaco).
