MoMo choir and speech by Laure Prouvost

Film projected :

Here We Dream Of No More Front Tears, by Laure Prouvost, 2024  

2'49

Courtesy of the artist

In 2023, after several stays in Monaco at the invitation of the NMNM, Laure Prouvost, who lives and works in Molenbeek (Belgium), proposes to establish an informal and sensitive correspondence between these two territories. MoMo (Monaco - Molenbeek) is a play on words, an imaginary space that thwarts borders to link energies and invent possibilities.  

This spring, MoMo will be visiting the Principality's parks and gardens on June 5, where children from Monaco and Molenbeek will come together to perform a song of dreams and hope written by Laure Prouvost. They will end their journey at 6pm on the Larvotto promenade at the Prince Albert II Foundation's Green Shift Festival. The two choirs will then sail to the port of Marseille on June 7, where they will reprise their ritornello in association with Marseille children as part of the Art Explora festival, where the Foundation's eponymous museum boat will be sporting sails designed by the artist.

In her films, frescoes and performances, Laure Prouvost brings people and plants together, creating joyful hybridizations where otherness generates new growth. She pursues these impulses through actions in the public space, through greening and awareness-raising campaigns that will soon, in Monaco as in Molenbeek, take the form of collective and festive moments where the public will be invited to become actors.

Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost lives and works in Molenbeek. In 2014, the NMNM presented her installation Wantee during the "Portraits d'intérieurs" exhibition, and in 2021, on the occasion of the "Tremblements" exhibition, Since he's gone, weaved by Grand Ma, a tapestry-video that is part of the museum's collections. In 2022, she proposed Habiter, nager, léviter, méduser, a discussion performed on the terrace of Villa Paloma with Mathilde Roman. In her work, which interweaves narratives and challenges the viewer, she performs with her body and voice, provoking feelings of intimacy and proximity that thwart real distances. In her narratives, languages are linked, forming new meanings, projecting imaginations inspired by the contexts of exhibitions as much as by the personal fictions she unfolds over time.

Laure Prouvost won the Turner Prize in 2013. She represented France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the MHKA Musée d'art contemporain d'Anvers, Belgium; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA; the De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands; the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; the Lucerne Art Gallery, Switzerland; the Arts Council of England, London, UK; and the New National Museum of Monaco.

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