...and the winner is Laure Prouvost!!
I am delighted to share this amazing news: Laure Prouvost, French artist based in London, just won the 2013 Turner Prize. The announcement arrived from Derry-Londonderry (Northern Irland). French artist Laure Prouvost poses with her artwork titled Wantee. (Credit: AFP) As I posted before in this blog, the shortlisted artists were: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shringley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Laure Prouvost (left), Lynette Yiadom-Boake (right) and David Shrigley (centre) in Londonderry Prouvost' installation entitled Wantee is inspired by the artist Kurt Schwitters. It is a story that mixes fiction and reality telling about a grandfather who was a conceptual artist friend with Schwitters. The film is shown in a room arranged as for a tea party. In fact the title refers to Schwitters's girlfriend who was used to offering tea to visitors by asking "Want tea?". Laure Prouvost, Wantee 2013 Mixed media, video: 14 minutes Photo © Hydar ...