Contemporary Art #18: Laure Prouvost - We Felt A Star Dying

Between atoms and particles, Laure Prouvost takes you on an unprecedented sensory journey. Beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, the artist presents a monumental work combining video, sculpture, sound, scent, and light, the result of two years of research into quantum physics. Laure Prouvost invites you to see the world differently.

Everything begins with a vertiginous question: “What might we feel when perceiving reality from a quantum perspective?”

At the entrance to the exhibition, a tunnel leads into a dazzling environment inhabited by The Beginning, a monumental kinetic sculpture. Animated by sound and light and composed of six limbs, it is at once omnipresent and evanescent, imposing and fragile, cosmic and earthly. At its center, a video titled We Felt A Star Dying connects us to matter in all its forms - living and non-living, natural and mechanical, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large.

Spatialized sound, filaments brushing against bodies, dazzling spotlights, an enveloping cushion on which to lie down and watch the video, platforms and sandbanks all act as sensory stimuli, immersing visitors in this expanded environment. Laure Prouvost reveals an interconnected world in which “we are one,” where “we are we.”
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