"Post-pandemic, with how we have lived in the past few years where we have really felt stuck to the ground and unable to move, I really wanted to have a feeling of escapism both in mental terms, but also the idea of physical escapism, of losing the weight of your body. Could we levitate? Could we be above the clouds? Could we be closer to the birds?"

Every Sunday, Grand Ma

Shot near Marseille in a grotto overlooking the Mediterranean, ‘You, My, Omma, Mama’ depicts a journey through space and time in search of our grandmothers and connections to our past, towards the history of the future. The world Prouvost invents here might perhaps originate with the 11 cm figurine known as the “Venus of Willendorf” as great-grandmother of us all. The artist borrows the story of this stone-age sculpture, reinterpreting and interweaving contextual motifs. Among the many interpretations that fascinate Prouvost is one whereby the figurine, named “Venus” by her finder, might not be a fertility symbol but rather a representation of a wise grandmother.