About Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost (b. 1978 in Lille, France) is currently based in Antwerp. She received her BFA from Central St Martins, London, in 2002 and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London.

Language – in its broadest sense – permeates Prouvost’s video, sound, installation and performance work. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, her work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. Playing with language as a tool for the imagination, Prouvost is interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images and meaning.

In 2011, Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the artist represented France at the 58th International Art Biennial Venice in 2019. June 2019 saw the artist's first public commission in the UK through Transport for London's Art on the Underground.