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Laure Prouvost's new work for Flat Time House was made during and after a short stay in March. In all these things think link, narrative and text connect recorded images and sound to objects in the house. Often there is a disjuncture between the verbal and visual information presented in the work. The unsophisticated delivery of her stories or descriptions, offered sweetly in the artist's own voiceover or through simple silent intertitles, creates moments of ambiguity when we might believe what we are told, before we register the surreality of it and the narrative is fractured along with any illusion of a temporal or spatial congruence between filmed image and physical space. 

This new work responds to the physical environment of John Latham's house, its objects and architecture, and more obliquely to his ideas about the inadequacies of language as a means of communication. 

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 

Laure Prouvost is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London. Her work includes painting, video, sound, and site-specific work. She graduated from Central St Martins College of Art in 2002 and is now completing her MFA at Goldsmiths College. In 2009 she completed the LUX Associate Artist Programme. She is currently showing IT, HEAT, HIT in the Lightbox Tate Britain (until 2 May). Recent shows include BFI, London; Form Content, London; EAST International, Norwich (recipient of the EAST International Award 2009); CCCB, Barcelona; and National Media Museum, Bradford. She has been director of tank.tv, the online platform for artists' work in moving image, since 2003. Her videos are distributed by LUX and she is represented by MOT International.