Laure Prouvost is recognised for immersive installations that unfold through associative, sensorial, and non-linear forms of narration. Language, in her practice, becomes a generative tool, slipping between image, sound, gesture, and sensation, destabilising conventional relations between words and things.

Mère We Sea is a monumental, site-responsive installation that transforms the chapel of De Noker, a former religious and care institution, into a fluid environment suspended between memory, dream, and marine imagination. The work inhabits the architecture like a living body: pulsating, resonant, and porous. At its centre hangs a suspended sculptural form, surrounded by rotating mobiles and glass elements that drift slowly through the chapel like a constellation. An immersive light environment and soundscape evoke both the intimacy of the womb and the vastness of the sea. Children’s voices recall mothers, grandmothers, maritime life, and everyday gestures of care and transmission.

The title folds together the French words la mère (mother) and la mer (sea) through Prouvost’s characteristic slippages of language and sensation. This linguistic doubling attunes viewers to the entangled relationship between human bodies, maternal lineages, and oceanic ecologies.