Laure Prouvost — We Felt A Star Dying at Grand Palais
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Location: Grand Palais, North Nave, Paris
Date: June 10 – July 26, 2026
Project: We Felt A Star Dying, multimedia installation adapted from the 2025 Kraftwerk Berlin version commissioned by LAS Art Foundation
Why it Matters: Prouvost takes the nave of Grand Palais for seven weeks. Turner Prize winner, quantum physics, and a six-limbed kinetic sculpture under the glass roof
Laure Prouvost spent two years working with philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven, got access to a quantum computer, and made images and sounds with it. The result is We Felt A Star Dying, a multimedia installation that first appeared at Kraftwerk Berlin in 2025 and now takes over the North Nave of Grand Palais in a completely reworked version. The Berlin show was built for darkness. This one is built for light.
You enter through a tunnel, which is a thing Prouvost keeps doing in her work. On the other side is The Beginning, a monumental kinetic sculpture with six limbs, animated by sound and light. At its centre, a video connects everything from atoms to galaxies. Hanging from the glass roof, meteorite-shaped objects called Cute Bits (a pun on qubits) dance in pairs, a reference to quantum entanglement. Some of them are helmets you can put your head inside. They have voices and they smell like metal.
A children's choir fills the space singing "we are one, we are we." There are cushions on the floor. Filaments brush against you as you walk. The boundary between inside and outside dissolves because the nave is basically open air anyway.
Prouvost won the Turner Prize in 2013 and represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2019. She trained in experimental video and worked as an assistant to conceptual artist John Latham. Her work is built on wordplay, humour, and sensory overload, and this show has all of it.
Open daily, 10am–7:30pm. €8 full price, free under 18.
More info: grandpalais.fr
