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Laure Prouvost

SHED_A_LIGHT

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 17:57 | France, Belgique | 2018

Shed A Light shows us a space where nature is purported to have taken over from humanity. Inspired by global warming, the filmed environment invites us to explore and celebrate ambiguity by being at once intimate and expansive. The video is an ode to diagonal lines, the transcending of limits and the joy of slipping over a fence to discover a wasteland. Or, a now-abandoned but marvelous garden, in which the artist has discovered a forgotten dystopic biological laboratory.

Laure Prouvost was born in 1978 in Croix-Lille, France. She lives and works in London, UK and Antwerp, Belgium. After receiving the Max Mara Prize for Women [2011], Prouvost was the first French artist to win the prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary British artists and/or living in Great Britain. Prouvost was a LUX Associate Artist 2008/9. Upcoming exhibitions include a major touring solo exhibition between Consortium Dijon, MMK Frankfurt and Kunstmuseum Luzern [2016] in addition to solo exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam [2017]; Hangar Biccoca, Milan; FRAC/Consortium, Dijon; and State of Concept, Athens [2016]. 2016 also includes residencies at Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa and at Fahrenheit for FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek at Fahrenheit, Los Angeles [2016]; DER ÖFFENLICHKEIT: Laure Prouvost at Haus Der Kunst, Munich; Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in der dole) at carlier|gebauer, Berlin; Laure Prouvost: It, Heat, Hit, e-flux, New York; We Will Go Far, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart; Burrow Me, Rupert, Vilinus; L’écran: Entre ici et Ailleurs, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. Other selected solo exhibitions include The Meeting at MOT International, Brussels [2014]; Polpomotorino at Morra Greco Foundation, Naples [2014]; For Forgetting at New Museum, New York [2014]; From Wantee to Some Signs at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp [2014]; Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko at Tate Britain, London [2013]; Laure Prouvost at The Hepworth, Wakefield [2012].