Wantee. Grand Dad Friendship with Kurt Schwitters
The latest achievement by France’s Laure Prouvost is both a funny, fictitious story about her grandfather and a visual reflection on the influence of the creator of a work on that work and their lack of control over how their work is interpreted by the viewer. In this film, Prouvost blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, inspired at the same time by what is real, thus providing an outlet for her imagination.
Patryk Tomiczek
awards
Turner Prize 2013
Laure Prouvost
Born in Lille, France. She currently lives and works in London. Has made films, installations, and performance art. Her work can be seen in galleries and at festivals all over the world. She won a Max Mara Art Prize in 2011. In 2013, she won a prestigious Turner Prize for Grand Dad Friendship with Kurt Schwitters, as well as an exhibition called FarFromWords at Whitechapel Gallery.
Selected filmography
1999 Holiday / Vacances 78 (short)
2002 Blue Bird (short)
2009 Burrow Me (short)
2011 I Wish This Video Was Deeper (short)
2013 Wantee. Przyjaźń dziadka z Kurtem Schwittersem / Wantee. Grand Dad Friendship with Kurt Schwitters (short)