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Laure Prouvost: In the Depth Heat Leaks
Recognised for her immersive multisensory installations straddling different media, with interwoven plots that combine fiction and reality, Laure Prouvost tells extraordinary stories, seeking in her work a new audiovisual grammar based on a haptic and sensual approach.
Winner of the 2013 Turner Prize and selected to represent France at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Prouvost creates works in which the elasticity of language and narrative play a central role. Stepping away from traditional linear storylines, she often plays with deliberately poor translations and severs the commonplace and expected connections between language, image and perception, creating a space for humour and imagination that captivates audiences.
As she explains, 鈥淲ords for me are visually powerful, because with words people create their own vision. I am just hinting and suggesting possibilities, the audience is making its own image in its head. It is also about misunderstanding, misinterpreting, miscommunicating鈥攚ords also suggesting failure and other senses.鈥�
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Recognised for her immersive multisensory installations straddling different media, with interwoven plots that combine fiction and reality, Laure Prouvost tells extraordinary stories, seeking in her work a new audiovisual grammar based on a haptic and sensual approach.
Winner of the 2013 Turner Prize and selected to represent France at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Prouvost creates works in which the elasticity of language and narrative play a central role. Stepping away from traditional linear storylines, she often plays with deliberately poor translations and severs the commonplace and expected connections between language, image and perception, creating a space for humour and imagination that captivates audiences.
As she explains, 鈥淲ords for me are visually powerful, because with words people create their own vision. I am just hinting and suggesting possibilities, the audience is making its own image in its head. It is also about misunderstanding, misinterpreting, miscommunicating鈥攚ords also suggesting failure and other senses.鈥�
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