Questions Will Be Asked?
Project Description
Questions Will Be Asked is a solo exhibition of work by Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Lille, France), bringing together a series of immersive single-channel video works that explore the instability of language, perception and narrative. Combining film, sound, text and sculptural elements, Prouvost creates seductive and disorienting environments in which meaning is constantly shifting.
Language, both spoken and visual, is central to Prouvost’s practice. Through humour, mistranslation, missubtitled dialogue and poetic dissonance, she explores the distance between what is said, what is seen and what is understood. Everyday images are placed alongside unexpected phrases and surreal associations, creating fragmented narratives that resist straightforward interpretation.
Among the works presented is a satirical video in which a curator’s academic reflections on video art gradually collapse into absurdist language, including the phrase “How may feeling a cow can always be in?” In It, Heat, Hit, Prouvost creates a hypnotic montage in which apparently innocent images gradually acquire an unsettling emotional charge, guided by rhythm, repetition and suggestion rather than conventional narrative.
Prouvost’s installations extend beyond the screen, combining videos with found objects, furniture, signs and other sculptural elements. These constructed environments function as theatrical spaces in which fiction and memory, personal experience and collective narratives become intertwined. The viewer is invited not simply to watch but to navigate an unstable reality in which images and words continually undermine one another.
Questions Will Be Asked extends Prouvost’s longstanding investigation into narrative and communication, asking what happens when language loses its authority and meaning becomes uncertain. Through humour, confusion and sensory immersion, the exhibition proposes alternative ways of experiencing and understanding images.
The exhibition was curated by Keith Whittle and Margherita Gramegna, with special thanks to Lux Artists’ Moving Image, Steve Cairns at ICA, MOT International and the staff at Sallaumines | Maison de l’Art et de la Communication, France.
Bio
Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Lille, France) is a French artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses film, video, installation, performance, sculpture and text. Her work is characterised by fragmented narratives, playful language and immersive environments that explore memory, perception, communication and the relationship between fiction and reality.
Prouvost won the Turner Prize in 2013 and represented France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions including Tate Britain, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and the New Museum, New York. Recent exhibitions include In the Mist of It All, Above Front Tears at De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2024), Mère We Sea at Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (2025–26), and We Felt A Star Dying at Grand Palais, Paris (2026).
Project details
Year: 2015
Artist: Laure Prouvost
Exhibition: Questions Will Be Asked
Curated by: Keith Whittle and Margherita Gramegna
Format: Solo exhibition
Works: Single-channel video, installation and sculpture
Special thanks: Lux Artists’ Moving Image; Steve Cairns at ICA; MOT International; Sallaumines | Maison de l’Art et de la Communication
Country: France