Laure Prouvost, born in 1978 in Lille, France, now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.As a winner of the Turner Prize, the highest award for contemporary British art, Prouvost possesses a self-contained conceptual universe in which she utilizes a fusion of mediums, including painting, video, installation, and sculpture, to create surreal utopias that are highly personal and humorous.
Bodies, creatures, nature, dreams, words, families... are all elements of Prouvost’s creations, and she attempts to move away from the dominant order constructs and traditional narrative modes to an immersive style of work that explores misunderstandings and loss of information in language, skillfully utilizing images to stimulate the imagination, and break the connection we expect between words, images, and meanings under the conventions. She combines personal memories with artistic and literary references to create artworks that are both tangible and imaginative.