LAS Art Foundation

Laure Prouvost

Artist
A woman with short, styled hair sits on a black chair, wearing a white shirt. They have a thoughtful expression and rest their hand under their chin.
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Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France, and is currently based in Brussels. She has exhibited widely, including representing France at the 58th Biennale di Venezia. Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013.

She creates immersive installations which suggest a state of personal and collective introspection. Her work is dynamic, intuitive and playful and it operates through layered storytelling, unfolding an assortment of images, sounds, spoken and written phrases. Prouvost plays with humour and unexpected connections, blurring distinctions between fiction and reality in idiosyncratic ways to create worlds where the tangible and reliable is often inverted by the fantastical nature of the artist's ambiguous narratives. Her most recent work explores ideas of kinship, migration, ecofeminism and interspecies relationships.