FF - Live at the Fridericianum

Laure Prouvost: “It’s a Tragedy”

Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020 – Sunday, Sep 6, 2020, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm

With her performative work It’s a Tragedy Brüssels-based artist Laure Prouvost not only explores the boundaries between personal and public space but also highlights the possibilities of analog and digital surveillance! Disregarding the title of the work the artist looks here to a refined sense of humor and the aspect of confusion by intertwining everyday situations of city life with surprising, theatrical escapades.

Laure Prouvost was born in 1934 in the Black Sea. She lives and works from a hot air balloon moving from country to country, currently based in Antwerp, Belgium. They Are Waiting for You, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; High Line Art, New York, US; Softer and rounder so as to shine through your smooth marble as part of The Uses of Art, SALT Galata, Istanbul; The Wet, Wet Wanderer, part of Para/Fiction at Witte de With Art Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2017); A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek at  Fahrenheit, Los Angeles (2016); We Will Go Far, at Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (2015); For Forgetting at New Museum, New York (2014). Provoust received the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and the Turner Prize in 2013.