‘Time for Women!' featuring Laure Prouvost at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

29 April 2025

From 17 April – 31 August 2025, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Collezione Maramotti present ‘Time for Women!’ featuring Laure Prouvost, an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, an award dedicated to supporting female-identifying artists, created as a collaboration between Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery, and Collezione Maramotti. The show will present the works of the nine artists who have won the prize since its inception in 2005: Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost, Corin Sworn, Emma Hart, Helen Cammock, Emma Talbot, and Dominique White.

The exhibition, in the Strozzina’s galleries at Palazzo Strozzi, pays tribute to two decades of artistic innovation and female creativity, presenting, for the first time together, the projects conceived by the nine winning artists following their long residencies in Italy—a key aspect of the prize. Paintings, videos, sculptures, and installations will alternate in a journey reflecting on themes such as identity, memory, the body, society, and politics.

Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost’s work addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. Playing with language as a tool for the imagination, Prouvost is interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images and meaning. She combines existing and imagined personal memories with artistic and literary references to create complex film installations that muddy the distinction between fiction and reality.

Find out more via Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.

Image: Laure Prouvost, Swallow, 2013, HD video, 12 minutes, @ Laure Prouvost, Courtesy Lisson Gallery