LAS Art Foundation presents Laure Prouvost 'WE FELT A STAR DYING' at Kraftwerk Berlin, Germany
11 December 2024
Until 4 May 2025, LAS Art Foundation presents Laure Prouvost WE FELT A STAR DYING, a newly commissioned art installation at Kraftwerk Berlin that 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. WE FELT A STAR DYING follows Prouvost’s rare access to a quantum computer and is born out of two years of research and development with philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven at Google Quantum AI. Their conversations and experiments helped shape this original and interdisciplinary new work.
In Berlin, the result is a multi-sensory and immersive environment, including video developed with a quantum computer, as well as sound, scent and sculptural elements tuned to the highly sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum computers. The project merges Prouvost’s playful and intuitive approach with the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics and represents a new line of enquiry in the artist’s oeuvre. Presented over 3,500 square metres (37,600 square feet) of former power station Kraftwerk Berlin, the commission offers a dynamic reflection on technological development today.
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.
Laure Prouvost, says “It has been a wonderful, crazy experience of mental exercises, gatherings and conversations 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. What this project has opened is infinite. I am very grateful to have had the chance to work with experts from all over the world to open a discussion on quantum consciousness. This exploration has been important for my practice. LAS pushes the boundary between art and science in depth that is rare. This project has made me more quantum ;) 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.”
Find out more via LAS Art Foundation.
Image: Laure Prouvost, WE FELT A STAR DYING, 2024, video still. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artist; LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, 2024.
