Laure Prouvost: Nest in You
Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris presents Nest In You, the forth solo exhibition by Laure Prouvost. The exhibition is on view through January 4th, 2025.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris presents Nest in You, the forth solo exhibition by Laure Prouvost, which also marks over ten-years of collaboration between the artist and the gallery. The exhibition was previously presented in various iterations between 2022 and 2024 at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway, at the Moody Arts Center in Houston, United States and at the DePont Museum in Tilburg, The Netherlands. For the gallery, Prouvost adapted the exhibition to the space, creating an experience of entering into a warm nest, inviting viewers to give themselves over to the maternal wing and imagine being within the body and world of a bird.
French-born Prouvost, studied at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths College, and, in 2013, was the first French artist to win the Turner Prize. Her work has delved into the experiential, creating immersive and sensory installations and in-situ architectural decors that transform a space and the viewers engagement with it, for example with her installation, Deep See Blue Surrounding You, at the 58th Venice Biennale.
“Nest In You highlights the artist’s ability to shape sensitive environments, with an extremely diverse visual language: different species of colored birds in Murano blown glass rub shoulders with tree branches mixed with plaster, plastic, mirrors and paint. A nest resembling a bird (Breeding Bird, 2022) made from a tapestry produced in Flanders, invites the visitor to enter its lair to watch the video The Nest.” The video features a song by a children’s choir in Moleneek, Belgium, adding a kind of surreal element to the overall mélange of imagery, textures and shapes. In addition, nine paintings from her Mirror Paintings series are lined across the space enhancing the feeling of interaction with the surroundings. Nest In You pushes forward the relationship between humans and the natural world around us; How we engage with it or not, and how will this relationship continue in the coming years.
Nest In You is on view through January 4, 2025.
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