Rouge et Noir Cinema, Palermo, 8 May 2024
May 8, 2024
An evening with Laure Prouvost
Nuova orfeo is thrilled to present an evening with Laure Prouvost
Palermo, Cinema Rouge et Noir
18:00
Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France (1978) and is currently based in Brussels. She received her BFA from Central St Martins, London in 2002 and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013. In 2019 she represented France at the Venice Biennale.
Find her personal biography here
The srceening will be followed by a Q & A between Prouvost and Nuova Orfeo member Stella Sideli
Language - in its broadest sense - permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations combining film and installation in humorous, generous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost's work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. Playing with language as a tool for the imagination, Prouvost confounds linear narrative, verbal expectation and association between word, image and meaning, placing the spectator in a situation of doubt and incomprehension, as well as wonder, both intellectual and sensorial. She combines existing and imagined personal memories with artistic and literary references to create complex film and video installations that muddy the distinction between fiction and reality.
Programme
You are the only one, UK, (2008)
Monologue, UK, (2009)
It heat hit UK, (2010)
Wantee, UK, (2013)
We will go far, UK (2015)
They Parlaient Ideale, France, Italy (2019)
Where humanly possible, these films have been translated into Italian! The discussion afterwards will be in English.
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