Together As One

Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost is one of the most distinctive artistic voices of her generation, celebrated for immersive works that blend film, sculpture, installation, language and storytelling into richly sensory experiences. Moving fluidly between humour and melancholy, intimacy and absurdity, her work invites audiences into imagined worlds where meaning is constantly shifting and new forms of connection become possible.

Born in France and based in Brussels, Prouvost studied at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths in London before emerging as an internationally recognised artist whose practice challenges conventional distinctions between reality and fiction. Through films, installations and environments populated by objects, voices and fragmented narratives, she creates works that encourage audiences to navigate uncertainty through feeling rather than logic. Her art often explores themes of migration, memory, language, belonging and our relationship to the natural world, proposing alternative ways of understanding how we live together.

In 2022, Prouvost collaborated with CIRCA on No More Front Tears, a major public commission that transformed screens across London, Berlin, Melbourne, Milan, New York and Seoul into a poetic call for empathy and coexistence. Centred on the migration of both human and other-than-human beings, the work imagined a future in which borders dissolve and new forms of collective belonging emerge. Accompanied by Prouvost’s first augmented reality intervention in Piccadilly Circus, featuring a giant octopus resting beside the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain after a long migratory journey, the project invited audiences to consider what it might mean to belong not to a nation, but to a shared world. In partnership with Choose Love, the commission also helped raise support for refugees and displaced communities, extending its message of solidarity beyond the screen.

Winner of the Turner Prize in 2013 and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2011, Prouvost represented France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally at leading institutions including Tate Britain, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Walker Art Center and Kunstmuseum Luzern. Through a practice that continually dissolves boundaries between people, places, species and stories, Laure Prouvost invites us to imagine more generous, interconnected and hopeful ways of being together.