Laure Prouvost: Above Front Tears Oui Float

Laure Prouvost has adopted the Nasjonalmuseet's Light Hall to create a world of contrasts. Occupying two of the three immense halls, the artist's installation tickles our senses and emotions and plays with our experience of gravity. Pulsating lights, hybrid glass birds and fountains are part of this landscape.

The title ‘Above Front Tears Oui Float’ is typical of Prouvost’s play with language, where French and English are often intertwined. The hybrid, both in text and work, is important in the artist’s oeuvre. In this installation, Grandma, one of the main protagonists in Prouvost’s artistic universe, grows a pair of wings and transforms into a human bird. A similar motif is found in a fountain assembled by glass and stone depicting a bird, a woman and a fish dissolving into one single creature. In a monumental video installation, Grandma has fulfilled her dream of soaring in the air like a bird, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness high up in the clouds, looking at the world from a bird’s eye view. Grandma’s dreams and visions form the basis for the exhibition.

Laure Prouvost is the first artist to receive the Fredriksen Commission for Nasjonalmuseet, Norway’s new National Museum. The Fredriksen Commission is an ambitious commissioning program of five biennial commissions over the period of 10 years.

 5 November 2022–12 February 2023

Oslo

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