LAURE PROUVOST IN CONVERSATION WITH NICOLAS VAMVOUKLIS

Laure, first of all, you should know that Antonis Pittas suggested reaching out to you in our previous FEATURES conversation… I thought we could play around with the Proust Questionnaire; it originates from a parlour game popularised by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist. To start, let me pick ten questions:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Flying into the sky by grandma’s side.

What is your greatest fear?
To fall from the sky.

Which talent would you most like to have?
To sing like my aunty.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
To have opened the travel agency Deep Travel Ink and to have planted plants in Molenbeek through Oui Grow, a project grandma started for her neighbourhood. If you want to give her money for her project, here is the Oui Grow bank account: BE07 3631 5809 3266.

If you were to die and come back as an object, what would it be?
A glass potato.

Where would you most like to live?
Molenbeek-sur-mère.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?
My granddad and his octopus.

Who are your heroes in real life?
My grandmas, Emmeline Pankhurst, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Pauline Réage, Monika Salzer, Barbara Steveni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Kruger, Dodie Bellamy, Joan Jonas, Laurie Anderson, Isabella d’Este, Sheila Hicks, Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Kathy Acker, Katia Krafft, Audre Lorde, Ada Lovelace, Angela Davis, Marie Curie, Maya Angelou, Katharine Graham, Nina Simone, Josephine Baker, Rosa Luxemburg, Virginia Woolf, Tamara de Lempicka, Vivienne Westwood, Edith Cowan, Niki de Saint Phalle, Berthe Morisot, Odette Prouvost Leclercq, Denise Derby, Agnès Varda, Rosetta Nuotatore, Francine Pans, Sarah Vanhee, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Donna Haraway, Rosa Parks, Junko Tabei, Éliane Radigue, Octavia E. Butler…

What is your greatest regret?
To have lost my granddad.

What is your motto?
Harmony with all that is here and joyful gatherings.

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PHOTO CREDITS

Laure Prouvost, Four For See Beauties, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma | Finnish National Gallery 2022 Photo: Pirje Mykkänen

Laure Prouvost, Above Front Tears Oui Float, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
2022 Photo: Annar Bjørgli

Laure Prouvost, Above Front Tears Oui Float, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
2022 Photo: Frode Larsen

Laure Prouvost, Above Front Tears Oui Float, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
2022 Photo: Annar Bjørgli

Laure Prouvost, Above Front Tears Oui Float, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
2022 Photo: Annar Bjørgli

Laure Prouvost, Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama, Kunsthalle Wien
2023 Photo: Iris Ranzinger

Laure Prouvost, Parade for the opening of FAÇADE, KANAL-Centre Pompidou
2023 Photo: Veerle Vercauteren

Photo: Alexandre Guirkinger

Laure Prouvost, Deep See Blue Surrounding You, French Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia
2019 Photo: Cristiano Corte