Laure Prouvost Artist talk Hirshorn Museum, and The weird conceptual universe of the artist, Financial Times Series Venice Biennale 2019 / by Mark Edwards

Listening to Laure Prouvost and watching her videos it is obvious she is wanting to transport the viewer, me, to a world of storytelling. When I first viewed Prouvost’s videos i was totally engaged in the narrative of a fairy tale with an adulthood take. Re-watching again and again I can pick up the artist is taking me to a wonderland but its really clear a narrative is unfolding into another world. The world of Loure Prouvost where conceptual art making, vivid travel diaries and exotic hideaways, naked females in watering holes, streams, tropical fruit and island paradise plays as a juxtaposition. Is this to keep you watching, or just a style of video making ? Looking towards my final assesment for Critically speaking, my presentation will be focused part on the spoken live presentation and part video. Prouvost along with Aki Sasamoto are fuelling my ideas, it is apparent from these two artists that they are in their own world that fuels creativity. They both use a form of ambiguity, and the dare to take chances, experiment, be absurd is ok. Both these artist have however produced high quality filmic storytelling. What i can take away is the experimentation with a story, no matter how random the story may be is ok, and be in my own world, do not try and re-create someone else’s work, be as different as I like, if it works great if it does not, try again another day.