Laure Prouvost
Bum Painting, 2017
digital print with embossed plate (in an oak frame)
signed and numbered (lower right)
24.5x30 cm.
Published in an edition of 100 by Studio Voltaire, London, in 2017
Bum Painting, 2017
digital print with embossed plate (in an oak frame)
signed and numbered (lower right)
24.5x30 cm.
Published in an edition of 100 by Studio Voltaire, London, in 2017
Bum Painting, 2017
digital print with embossed plate (in an oak frame)
signed and numbered (lower right)
24.5x30 cm.
Published in an edition of 100 by Studio Voltaire, London, in 2017
Laure Prouvost’s limited edition print features one of the artist’s signature pink bottom paintings. Many of Prouvost’s film and installation works center on the character of her lost ‘grandfather’, a fictional fellow artist who "didn't really like conceptual art – he liked making bottoms". Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost’s work addresses miscommunication and moments lost in translation. Playing with language as a tool for the imagination, Prouvost is interested
in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, imagesand meaning. Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011, was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013 and represented France at the Biennale in Venice in 2019. A selection of important solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle, Lisbon; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwers; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Haus der Kunst, Munich; New Museum, New York;Tate Britain, London, and The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield.
Laure Prouvost will also be the first artist to kick off the Fredriksen Family Commission at the National Museum of Norway, creating an installation for the Light Hall scheduled to open on 3 November 2022.