This film, broadcast on a loop in several rooms of the Pavilion, traces the journey undertaken by Laure Prouvost and 12 other characters, from the Paris suburbs to Roubaix, via Marseille and ending in Venice. 

"The initial idea was a journey towards an ideal elsewhere enabling us to learn how to understand ourselves better, as men or women, young or old people, French or foreigners." (Laure Prouvost)

This tapestry made for the exhibition acts as one of the many tentacles linked to the central work. It features characters from the film.

A multidisciplinary artist, Laure Prouvost works in video, drawing, tapestry, ceramics, photography and glass.

Laure Prouvost has a special relationship with language. A fascination that she feeds with her personal experience, particularly following her move to London. The artist uses differences between mother tongue and adoptive language to design her works.  

The exhibition is based on making every viewer feel like a tentacle in this project. Like the film's lead narrative, the artist invites each person, with their story, to participate in the formation of a "whole.”

For this exhibition, Laure Prouvost worked in the Murano glass factories, right next to the Biennale. 

In this room, the artist arranged everyday elements as if they were engulfed in the sea in reference to ecological disasters. Using glass allows her to create a “game on transforming liquidity and light”.

Laure Prouvost's work echoes the term "liquid modernity," formulated by the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The concept defines a post-modern world governed by immediacy and communication, which make ancient bonds between humans and bodies disappear. It reveals the fragility of a society based on individualism and permanent change.