But maybe it’s good for England that they don’t get too many of me! My granddad brutes to paint bums… but you’re right, it’s more personal. “I wanted to do something really peaceful, even pleasurable for me to make”, Prouvost says. From young Belgian artists to both established and fledgling international artists, the thread going through Sabine and Rik Depla-Lantsoght ’s collection is contemporary paintings. The 35 year old film and installation artist was the first French woman to be nominated for the UK’s top visual arts award, the Turner Prize. When I was 15 he died falling off the stairs in the European Commission where he worked as a translator, and I found the present in my parents’ wardrobe. You can view an extract from her film, “Swallow” on the Whitechapel Gallery’s website: www.whitechapel.org. Curated by Mike Sperlinger It Heat Hit, Film Festival Rotterdam Monologue, Map, Brooklyn, New York 2010 Strong Sory, Look Gallery, Budapest More Pricks Than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London Now Then___, E:vent Gallery, London New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London; A Foundation, Liverpool Kryptonim Matrioszka, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow International Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen Performance and/or Object, Quare Projects, London What it is Not, Whitechapel Gallery, London Serpentine Cinema, The Gate, London Serpentine Sleepover, The Serpentine, London International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands Word Play, Whitechapel Gallery, London (performance) 2009 The Know Unknows, Whitechapel Gallery, London The Filmic Conventions, FormContent at Zoo Art Fair 2009, London Genesis, Vegas, London I Am By Birth a Genevese; and My Family is One of The Most Distin-guished Of That Repbulic, Galerie Forde - Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva A Work A Day, MOT International, London EAST INTERNATIONAL, Norwich MILL, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London Close Your Eyes, Pulse Art Fair, New York 2009 The Know Unknows, Whitechapel Gallery, London The Filmic Conventions, FormContent at Zoo Art Fair, London Genesis, Vegas, London I Am By Birth a Genevese; and My Family is One of The Most Distin-guished Of That Repbulic, Galerie Forde, Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva A Work A Day, MOTINTERNATIONAL, London East International, Norwich MILL, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London Close Your Eyes, Pulse Art Fair, New York BFI London Film Festival, London (screening 2008 TANK.TV Fresh Moves, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou The Night of One Thousand and One Videos, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva Abstraction Quotidiennes, St Gervais Centre, Geneva PILOT: ARCHIVE, ZAIM, Yokohama and 101, Tokyo ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid 2007 White Light, Write It, Lieu Commun,Toulouse Wintry, Lounge Gallery, London Instruction for Films, No.w.here at Zoo Art Fair, London Pilot, The Triangle gallery, Chelsea College, London Radio piece, David Blandy at Cornerhouse, Manchester Pilot: 3, Venice and London Music to The Eyes, Sonar, Barcelona Video Club, Lighthouse, Brighton Home is Where the Heart Is, CASM, Barcelona. It’s all the same. Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. Yes, they can sit on the bed, lie down. Laure Prouvost (French, b.1978) is a multimedia artist who examines our relationship with the past using modern technology. There is a lot of footage from my gran and his friends John, Bruce Nauman and Kurt… In 2020 we hope to build a big visitor centre when granddad comes out.