Intercutting a barrage of fast-paced moving images with stills and text in her films, Laure Prouvost steps away from traditional linear narratives and opens up a space for the viewer to engage provocatively with surreal aspects of meaning. Her films often address viewers directly, manipulating their senses through sound and image to achieve a physical experience. In recent works such as The Artist (2010), Swallow (2013), and Wantee (2013), which won her the 2013 Turner Prize, Prouvost expands the scope of her disorienting narratives and whimsical modes of display by creating all-encompassing environments that include elements of sculpture, painting, and drawing amongst her films. In the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery, Prouvost will present For Forgetting (2013), a new, immersive multichannel video installation that explores slippages in memory and arbitrary distinctions of power and possession.

Born in 1978 in Lille, France, Laure Prouvost lives and works in London, UK. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Britain, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, CCA, Glasgow, Portikus, Frankfurt, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. She has screened work in film festivals internationally and won the Principal Prize in both the 56th and 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2013, Prouvost was awarded the Turner Prize for her piece Wantee (2013) and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her work for the Turner Prize is on view through January 2014 at CCA Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and Prouvost has upcoming solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, and Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City.

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Laure Prouvost, 
For Forgetting, 2014
Exhibition view: New Museum
courtesy the artist and MOTINTERNATIONAL, London and Brussels
Photo: Benoit Pailey