WE FELT A STAR DYING
In a new commission, Laure Prouvost explores quantum phenomena and their sensitivity to cosmic and planetary forces.
2025 marks a century since became established, and today its applications are predicted to enact a paradigm shift in our world. Following two years of research and rare access to a , Laure Prouvost presents a multi-sensory new work with LAS.
The commission begins with the question: “How could we sense reality from a quantum perspective?” Prouvost draws video, sound, scent, sculpture and scenography together into a fluid installation tuned to the highly sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum computers. It merges Prouvost’s playful ways of shifting audience perception with the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, aiming to bring audiences into the emerging world of .
Educational Programme: Entangled Currents
Education programme Entangled Currents at Kraftwerk Berlin explores the Sensing Quantum Programme with talks, workshops, and activities for all ages.
The project grows out of the artist’s conversations with philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven. The collaboration allowed Laure Prouvost to access a quantum computer, and to experiment with a new AI model using data recorded from quantum computations. The results can be experienced in the artwork’s video and sound. Presented in the industrial space of Kraftwerk Berlin, a former power plant, the commission opens a dynamic reflection on technological development today.
Laure Prouvost’s new commission launches LAS Art Foundation’s Sensing Quantum programme, which includes further installations, a public symposium and publication, and runs through to 2026.
“[This project aims] to trigger the switch all together from our habits of translating the world to a quantum reality, with its micro free spirit and . These words, this ink, letters, these pixels are infinite quantum effects that are one with us. The exhibition wants to feel and translate that, in the hope to entangle us all in a preferred state and place.”
— Laure Prouvost
WE FELT A STAR DYING: Extended Guide
This guide offers the opportunity to delve deeper into Laure Prouvost's multi-sensory work about quantum phenomena.
Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France, and is currently based in Brussels. She has exhibited widely, including representing France at the 58th Biennale di Venezia. Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013.
She creates immersive installations which suggest a state of personal and collective introspection. Her work is dynamic, intuitive and playful and it operates through layered storytelling, unfolding an assortment of images, sounds, spoken and written phrases. Prouvost plays with humour and unexpected connections, blurring distinctions between fiction and reality in idiosyncratic ways to create worlds where the tangible and reliable is often inverted by the fantastical nature of the artist's ambiguous narratives. Her most recent work explores ideas of kinship, migration, ecofeminism and interspecies relationships.
