Laure Prouvost: 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 quantum physics 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 quantum computer, Laure Prouvost presents a multi-sensory new work with LAS Art Foundation.

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 quantum technologies.

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 trained on data recorded from quantum computations. The results can be experienced in the artwork’s video and sound.

This project aims to trigger the switch all together from our Newtonian habits of translating the world to a quantum reality, with its micro free spirit and entanglement. 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

Laure Prouvost’s new commission launches LAS Art Foundation’s Quantum programme, which includes further installations, a public symposium and publication, and runs through to 2026.

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