Laure Prouvost, received the prestigious Turner Prize for Art, and in 2011 won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Prouvot was born in Lille, France. She went to a school where art history was taught along with the usual subjects. The future artist learned early not only to draw: as a child, she was forbidden to watch TV, but Prouvot had a camera, and she shot amateur films as well as she could. At the age of 18, the Frenchwoman moved to London, where she studied first at Central Saint Martins, and then at the prestigious Goldsmiths Art College. From the very beginning of her career, she used all her skills: she made videos, drawings, and installations.

Prouvot's work is called the art of the Instagram generation. She mixes reality and fiction, editing videos from short scenes that convey the mood rather than show the action. For example, this year's work "Swallow" conveys Prouvot's impressions of visiting Italy. The characters of the video eat fruit, swim in waterfalls and admire the surrounding landscape. In addition, Prouvot often makes installations in addition to videos: for example, for "Swallow", she made a room whose walls are covered with images of plants and people resting. The artist is famous for creating complex multi-layered stories: despite the fact that the installation looks very modern, and the video "Swallow" looks like an amateur video from YouTube, her work refers to many other works of the past. Like the artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, she went to Italy for inspiration, and her work tells about this journey in modern language.

The video work "Wantee", for which Provo received the Turner Prize, is also interesting to solve. The work is named after the beloved artist Kurt Schwitters, who, according to Prouvot, was a friend of her grandfather. The grandfather himself was supposedly a conceptual artist, and his biggest project was a tunnel leading from the living room of his house to Africa, in which the grandfather once disappeared. At the Turner Prize nominees ' show, Prouvot's video was shown in a dark room lined with old furniture: so the artist recreated the interior of the living room of her ancestor.

Why did the jury of one of the main art awards in the world choose this work? Law knows how to tell stories like no one else. American writer and art critic Bonnie Greer describes the experience of "Wantee": "It's like the best moments of school life, when you sit in the classroom, fascinated by the teacher's story, and you think that what she says is happening in front of your eyes." The curator of the Lyon Biennale, the Icelander Gunnar Kvaran, also highlights the ability to make any story interesting, no wonder the artist's works were included in the exhibition of the biennale, dedicated to new ways of storytelling.