At Mucem, Laure Provost Takes Over the Fort Saint-Jean with “In the fort, souls are”
With a background in experimental video, Laure Prouvost has taken over the Fort Saint-Jean at Mucem with her deeply poetic and dreamlike imagery. Through the figure of “Icare-Us-Elle”, the French artist plunges us into an immersive journey built around an ecofeminist re-reading of the myth of Icarus. Just like the son of Daedalus, who burns his wings for flying too close to the Sun, Icare-Us-Elle also falls into the Mediterranean, to be transformed into an anemone-magician. Organised around four installations, the exhibition features glass and copper sculptures, everyday objects and audiovisual arrangements, displayed in areas of the Mucem that aren’t usually open to the public. ‘In the fort, souls are’ is an exceptional sensory immersion, a cry against the rush for development and its devastating effects, but above all, an ode to nature and the unknown. At the opening of this extraordinary exhibition, we crossed paths with Laure Prouvost, Mucem President Pierre-Olivier Costa, Mucem Scientific and Collections Director Marie Charlotte Calafat and Mucem contemporary art curator Hélia Paukner, but also Bianca Bondi, Martha Kirszenbaum, Nathalie Obadia, Edward de Lumley, and many more.
Photos: Jean Picon
