A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek

Fahrenheit is delighted to present A Way to Leak, Lick, Leek, Laure Prouvost’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles. The exhibition is the outcome of Prouvost’s residency at Fahrenheit, and utilizes elemental material found within Los Angeles—flora, fauna, smells, sounds, the vertiginous light of L.A.’s East Side. Prouvost constructs an immersive environment in which videos, sculptures and installations become central ploys in a scenario that explores the boundaries of fantastic, rural escapism and the reality of a delineated urban experience borne of breathing petrol and plastic. In her main video, Prouvost employs tropes both derived from and challenging the distinct filmic languages of cinema and art. Cast and filmed in Los Angeles, adolescent Angelinos and their collective performance constitute an amateur form, on an improvisational level. These stars of the outtake bring corrupt reveries to life through humor and mistranslations. Laure Prouvost was born in 1978 in Croix-Lille, France. She lives and works in London, UK and Antwerp, Belgium. Solo exhibitions include We Will Go Far, at Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (2015), It, Heat, Hit at e-flux, New York (2015), Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in der dole) at carlier | gebauer, Berlin (2015), Der Öffentlichkeit — Von Den Freunden Haus Der Kunst at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2015), For Forgetting at New Museum, New York (2014), From Wantee to Some Signs at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2014); Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko at Tate Britain, London (2013); All These Things Think Link at Flat Time House, London (2010); It, Heat, Hit at Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London (2010). Group shows include The Great Acceleration at the Taipei Biennial (2014); Portraits d’Intérieurs at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; and Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain 2008–2013 at Tate Britain, London (2013). Provoust received the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and the Turner Prize in 2013. This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Institut Français

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