carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with  Laure Prouvost, opening Thursday, 10 September, 4 – 8pm. 

Laure Prouvost’s artistic output consistently returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. A strong narrative impulse propels her practice, resulting in immersive, trans-medial installations with interwoven story lines that combine fiction and reality. 

Visitors to her exhibition with carlier | gebauer will be greeted by Grandad’s Library, a collection of books belonging to the artist’s conceptual artist Grandfather. Among shelves laden with poetry, art historical surveys, literary travelogues, and books about escapism you can access a secret portal that will take you into the exhibition. Once inside, you’ll find yourself in pitch darkness. A passageway to the right will lead you to the video Into All That is Here, which has its international premiere here in Berlin. The motif of digging and “tunnelling” provides a starting point for this primal reflection on love, birth, and death. A sense of time, space, and emotion repeatedly expand and contract throughout the video. Dynamic jump cuts between blossoming flowers, pulsating lights, fountains, GPS screens, remote controls, and still images underscore how we experience the world both physically and through images, while the video’s hypnotic voice-over speaks to