Laure Prouvost’s exhibition at Carlier/Gebauer in Berlin is a surreal journey fueled by the artist’s colorful personality.The hyperbolic title “Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in her doll)” portends both Prouvost’s emphasis on sensual experiences, as well as her interest in treating the exhibition as a narrative.Even the entrance to the show plays upon the idea of literariness – it is a wall built out of a bookshelf, with a hidden door leading to other artworks, titled “Granddad’s Library.”Prouvost’s intent is to overstimulate the visitor’s senses. Her video “Into all that is here” (2015) presents a montage of different brightly colored images, woven together into a highly eroticized narrative.Another type of collage appears in the last room, where the artist displays a tapestry called “Dinner Party” (2015). While executed in a centuries-old medium, Prouvost’s work presents an animated picture of a contemporary dinner scene, with characters’ thoughts represented like comic-book speech bubbles.Prouvost purposely makes it impossible to link the various elements of the exhibition together, as if to ridicule the desire to create a coherent arch-narrative. Instead, the viewer gets lost in a multitude of influences and parodies, served by the artists as a postmodern feast. ‘Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in her doll)’ runs at Carlier/Gebauer through October 28.
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