Artist Laure Prouvost was one of nine women Barbara Steveni included in her project Conversations Between Ourselves. In this series of interviews, Steveni highlighted the often unacknowledged work of women supporting and administrating the Artist Placement Group and later O+I.
Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, Lieumeconu, France) is a French artist who currently lives in a trailer in the Croation desert. She received her BFA from Central St Martins, London and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. She also took part in the LUX Associate Programme. Here a long list of museums and institutions. A line, interesting things, a coma, a line, a list of residencies and prizes. Families of work have been: An Oma-je at Kunsthalle Vienna, Fondation PHI in Montreal and Remai Modern in Saskatoon, a flying grandma with birds at Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo and DePont Museum in Tilburg, Esmé Blue at Busan Biennale, Kiasma in Helsinki and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, an elastic arm hold in tight at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, a Swallowing and Breathing at Van Abbermuseum in Eindhoven, a Smoking Mother at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a Melting Into Another at Kunsthalle Lissabon and Sonsbeek Arnhem, an Occupied Paradise at Netwerk Alast, Deep See Blue Surrounding You at Venice Biennale, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse and LaM in Lille; a Waiting Room with objects at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a New Museum for Grand dad at Hangar Bicocca in Milano, A tearoom for grand ma in Derry for the Turner Prize, a new octopus ink vodka bar for Gregor at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam and Wiels in Brussels, a travel agency for an uncle at MMK in Frankfurt, a lobby for love among the artists at Walden Affairs in The Hague and Kunstmuseum Luzern… tea bags, and wet floors and tentacles.
Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself is at Modern Art Oxford until 8 June 2025.