Mac Marseille, France
https://musees.marseille.fr/macroom-they-parlaient-ideale-laure-prouvost
The [mac] musée d'art contemporain de Marseille presents in the [mac]room the filmic and fictional work "They Parlaient Idéale", the central film of Laure Prouvost's installation "Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre", imagined in 2019 for the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Echoing Mère, We Sea, an original monumental installation created in the heart of the chapel at Marseille's Centre de la Vieille Charité, the film They Parlaient Idéale (2019) presented in the [mac]room, an experimental space dedicated to contemporary creation, explores another facet of the artist's work.
Laure Prouvost, video artist, visual artist and performer, lives and works in Brussels. She is interested in diversity the poetry of languages and the singularities that make up communities. Produced in 2019 for the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale, They Parlaient Idéale invites us to follow a journey between Nanterre, the slag heaps of the Pas-de-Calais mining basin, the Palais Idéal of Facteur Cheval, the creeks of Marseille and finally Venice. The protagonists of this journey, of different cultures, languages and ages, each have a specific talent: a Franco-Gabonese hip-hop dancer, a retired schoolteacher and headdress maker, a Senegalese comedian and musician, a Parisian flautist, and so on.
Echoing Mère, We Sea, an original monumental installation created in the heart of the chapel at Marseille's Centre de la Vieille Charité, the film They Parlaient Idéale (2019) presented in the [mac]room, an experimental space dedicated to contemporary creation, explores another facet of the artist's work.
Laure Prouvost, video artist, visual artist and performer, lives and works in Brussels. She is interested in diversity the poetry of languages and the singularities that make up communities. Produced in 2019 for the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale, They Parlaient Idéale invites us to follow a journey between Nanterre, the slag heaps of the Pas-de-Calais mining basin, the Palais Idéal of Facteur Cheval, the creeks of Marseille and finally Venice. The protagonists of this journey, of different cultures, languages and ages, each have a specific talent: a Franco-Gabonese hip-hop dancer, a retired schoolteacher and headdress maker, a Senegalese comedian and musician, a Parisian flautist, and so on.
The title They Parlaient Idéale testifies to Laure Prouvost's interest in language experiments. The artist's voice-over describes the stages of the journey in several languages, in English or French, but the subtitles, sometimes absent, often offbeat, introduce a poetic dimension to the language. Sung or spoken in English, French, Arabic and Italian, they link the characters together like a choir or brass band. Finally, language captures the spectator's attention and takes him into the journey. "Are you ready?!
