Laure Prouvost (*1978) is a wonderful story-teller who seduces her audiences by means of supposedly aestheticallyamateurish material, sound and imagination. Her installations combine video, everyday objects, ceramics or painting with architecture, linking truth and poetry to create an idiosyncratic reality: was Laure Prouvost’s grandfather really a concept artist whose last work – a tunnel from Europe to Africa which he dug himself by hand – remained unfinished because her grandfather also got lost in it himself?

This artist takes up each event, each impression immediately and uses it for her narrative, which develops over the three venues of the touring exhibition. At the openings it may even be that tea is served in old-fashioned porcelain cups. Laure Prouvost’s narratives are seductive labyrinths, her installations marked both by a great lightness and by high technical precision. They are also humorous and altogether sensual in their rich detail. But be careful: anyone who gets involved in her stories may never find their way out again…