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Laure Prouvost

Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds

21 apr – 8 aug 2021 Opening: 21 apr 2021 12:00

This spring, Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to reopen April 21 with the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with Turner Prize winning artist Laure Prouvost who represented France at the 58th International Art Biennial in Venice.

Laure Prouvost works with a richly imaginative artistic language encompassing film and installation as well as sculpture, sound and performance. She is known for her sensuous and evocative immersive installations where the boundaries between fiction and reality become blurred and the ambiguities of language are explored.

For Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds, Prouvost will transform Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s entire north wing into a labyrinthine and other-worldly installation. Conceived as a total experience, centered around a new video installation, co-commissioned with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, the exhibition will introduce audiences to the spirited, absorbing and frequently humourous hallmarks of Prouvost’s diverse artistic practice.

In this enticing exhibition, whispering, erotic voices will share the space with fragile glass sculptures, a Flemish tapestry, raspberry-eating fish and flowers unfurling their petals. At the centre of a rich assortment of architectural interventions, films, found objects, sculptures and signs, will be a new commission produced especially for the exhibition. A site-specific installation, centered around a major film work, Prouvost’s new commission will take audiences on a journey above the clouds, to a universal dream space of expanded horizons, in which we may escape our physical realities, collapse distance, reach out and embrace each other once again.

Laure Prouvost (b. 1967, Lieumeconu, France) Lives and works.
Here a long list of museums and institutions. A line, interesting things, a coma, a line, a list of residencies and prizes. A selection of solo projects including: a Swallowing and Breathing in Eindhoven, a Smoking Mother in Copenhagen, a Melting Into Another in Lisbon, an Occupied Paradise in Aalst, Deep See Blue Surrounding You in Venice, Toulouse and Lille; a Waiting Room with objects in Minneapolis, a New Museum for Grand dad in Milano, A tearoom for grand ma in Derry, a karaoke room in Brussels, a new octopus ink vodka bar for Gregor in Rotterdam, A travel agency for an Uncle in Frankfurt, a lobby for love among the artists in the Hague and Luzern… tea bags, and wet floors and tentaculees.

Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and produced in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The exhibition is presented as part of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s collaboration with CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Institut français du Danemark, Kvadrat, the Obel Family Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.

 

Laure Prouvost

Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds

21 apr – 8 aug 2021 Åbning: 21 apr 2021 12:00

Den Turner Prize-vindende kunstner Laure Prouvost er verdenskendt for sine totalinstallationer og repræsenterede Frankrig ved Venedig Biennalen 2019. Nu præsenterer Kunsthal Charlottenborg hendes første soloudstilling i Skandinavien.

Laure Prouvost arbejder i et fabulerende kunstnerisk formsprog, der spænder fra film og installation til skulptur, lyd og performance. Hun er kendt for sine sanselige, surrealistiske og stemningsfulde totalinstallationer, der på humoristisk og idiosynkratisk vis skaber en ramme for hendes filmværker. Her udviskes grænser mellem fiktion og virkelighed og sprogets flertydighed udforskes.

Med udstillingen Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds omdanner Prouvost hele Kunsthal Charlottenborgs nordfløj til en labyrintisk installation, der skaber sin helt egen, overjordiske verden. Udstillingen er skabt som en totaloplevelse, der med en ny videoinstallation produceret i samarbejde med Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) i Melbourne vil introducere publikum til Prouvosts livlige, fængslende og ofte humoristiske kunstneriske praksis.

I den forførende udstilling kan man opleve hviskende, erotiske stemmer flette sammen med skrøbelige glasskulpturer, en flamsk gobelin, hindbærspisende fisk og blomster, der udfolder deres kronblade. Centralt i udstillingen blandt fundne genstande, skulpturer og skilte er Prouvosts nye store filmværk, der tager publikum med på en rejse op over skyerne til et universelt drømmerum, hvor horisonterne udvides og hvor vi kan undslippe den fysiske verdens realiteter, overvinde afstande, række ud og omfavne hinanden igen.

Laure Prouvost (f. 1967, Lieumeconu, Frankrig) bor og arbejder.
Her følger en lang liste over museer og institutioner. En linje, nogle interessante ting, en koma, en linje, en liste over residency-ophold og priser. Et udvalg af soloprojekter, herunder: en svælgen og et åndedræt i Eindhoven, en rygende mor i København, en smelten sammen med en anden i Lissabon, et besat paradis i Aalst, et dybblåt hav omkring dig i Venedig og Toulouse, et venteværelse med genstande i Minneapolis, et nyt Museum til bedstefar i Milano, en tesalon til bedstemor i Derry, et karaokested i Bruxelles, en ny blæksprutte-vodka-bar til Gregor i Rotterdam, et rejsebureau til en onkel i Frankfurt, en lobby for kærlighed blandt kunstnerne i Haag og Lucerne… teposer og våde gulve og tentakler.

Udstillingen er kurateret af Henriette Bretton-Meyer og er produceret i samarbejde med Australian Centre for Contemporary Art i Melbourne. Udstillingen præsenteres som del af Kunsthal Charlottenborgs samarbejde med CPH:DOX og er støttet af Augustinus Fonden, Institut français du Danemark, Kvadrat, Det Obelske Familiefond og Statens Kunstfond.

 

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