Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Croix, France) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. She studied at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths in London. Her practice encompasses film, video, installation, textile, and drawing, producing immersive environments in which image, text, spoken language, and material objects collapse into one another in states of deliberate confusion, seduction, and fiction.

Her work began with videos and installations organized around invented or exaggerated family mythologies — most notably Wantee (2013), centered on a fictional grandfather who was Kurt Schwitters's assistant. These environments layer instruction, desire, incoherence, and humor, pulling the viewer into an experience in which the boundary between inside and outside the work becomes uncertain. She received the Turner Prize in 2013. For the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), she presented Deep See Blue Surrounding You, a large-scale immersive project on sea, border, and collective memory, for which she traveled with a cast of collaborators by boat from Marseille to Venice. Her work is held by Tate, the Centre Pompidou, and major collections internationally.