In Questions Will Be Asked, Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost (b.1978, Lille, France), presents a solo exhibition that probes the limits of language, perception, and narrative through a series of immersive single-channel video works. Known for her distinct fusion of film, sound, text, and sculptural elements, Prouvost constructs disorienting yet seductive environments that playfully unravel meaning and intention.
Language—both spoken and visual—is the unstable terrain Prouvost navigates. With humor and poetic dissonance, her work explores the slipperiness of communication and the distance between what is said, seen, and understood. Viewers encounter fragmented narratives, missubtitled dialogues, and surreal juxtapositions—where a frog in a pond or a street in snow sit alongside phrases of love and implied violence.
Key works include a satirical video where a curator’s academic musings on video art are fractured into absurdist nonsense—“How may feeling a cow can always be in?”—and It, Heat, Hit, a hypnotic montage that gradually slips from innocence into an uneasy emotional undercurrent, guided by rhythm and suggestion rather than clear plot.
Prouvost, ever the unreliable narrator, invites audiences not just to view but to feel their way through her art. Her installations are not merely visual experiences, but constructed realities where found objects, furniture, signs, and videos form an immersive, participatory stage. Fiction and memory, personal and collective, collapse into richly textured and layered installations.
This exhibition extends Prouvost’s longstanding interest in testing narrative conventions and visual language, and ultimately asks: what happens when meaning dissolves—and what new ways of seeing might emerge from the confusion?
Questions Will Be Asked was curated by Keith Whittle and Margherita Gramegna. Special thanks to Lux Artists’ Moving Image, Steve Cairns at ICA and MOT International and the staff at Sallaumines | Maison de l’Art et de la Communication, France.
