The Jarman Award 2011
Laure Prouvost
About the Artist
Laure Prouvost lives and works in London. Her video installations challenge the nature of the filmic medium by rendering the exhibition space part of the narrative, with the audience subsequently becoming an implicit part of the work.
Recent solo exhibitions include before, before. before it was, the title sequence, spinning before next, a squid, at MOTINTERNATIONAL, London, April, 2011; 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; Burrow Me, Lighthouse, Brighton, 2009.
Recent screenings include The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA, 57th Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany and Videozone 5, Tel Aviv Biennial, Israel). In 2011 she was nominated for the MaxMara Art Prize for Women and was principle prizewinner at the 57th Oberhausen film festival.
Clip from It Heat Hit, Laure Prouvost, 2010
