French artist Laure Prouvost is set to unveil a major new installation that asks an extraordinary question: what would it feel like to perceive reality from a quantum point of view?
Drawing on two years of research conducted with a quantum computer, Nous, frissons d’étoiles is a multisensory environment combining video, sound, scent, light and kinetic sculpture to explore the strange and often counterintuitive world of quantum phenomena.
Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation, the project emerges from an unprecedented collaboration between the artist, Google Quantum AI scientists and philosopher Tobias Rees. Through access to a quantum computing AI model and conversations with leading quantum researchers, Prouvost has translated complex scientific ideas into an immersive sensory experience.
At the heart of the installation is a video work connecting viewers to matter in its many forms. Surrounding it, a constellation of meteorite-like sculptural elements unfolds through space, animated by sound and light. Simultaneously fragile and monumental, terrestrial and cosmic, the installation reflects the unpredictable and interconnected nature of quantum systems.
Several of the sculptural forms function as listening stations, inviting visitors to hear voices emerging from these enigmatic objects while encountering metallic and mineral scents that further blur the boundaries between physical sensation and scientific imagination.
The exhibition explores quantum behaviour at the atomic and particle level, focusing on phenomena such as entanglement and the sensitivity of matter to planetary and cosmic forces. Rather than illustrating scientific concepts directly, Prouvost transforms them into poetic encounters that engage the body as much as the mind.
The project arrives at a moment of growing public fascination with quantum technologies. Following the United Nations’ International Year of Quantum in 2025 and major breakthroughs announced by both Google and Microsoft, quantum science is increasingly being discussed as a transformative force that could rival the impact of artificial intelligence.
Nous, frissons d’étoiles forms part of LAS Art Foundation’s award-winning Sensing Quantum programme, which explores how artists can engage with emerging quantum technologies. The initiative received the European Commission’s prestigious S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovation Collaboration and has become one of the most ambitious intersections of contemporary art, science and technology today.
The programme also includes Pierre Huyghe’s immersive installation Liminals, which opened earlier this year at Halle am Berghain in Berlin and will travel to Fondation Beyeler in Basel and the Hartwig Museum in Amsterdam. Developed through conversations with quantum physicist Tommaso Calarco and philosopher Tobias Rees, Huyghe’s work similarly transforms quantum processes into sensory experiences involving film, sound, vibration and light.
With Nous, frissons d’étoiles, Prouvost continues her exploration of language, perception and the unseen, offering a poetic meditation on how new scientific discoveries might reshape our understanding of reality itself.
This new iteration of WE FELT A STAR DYING marks an important moment in the ongoing life of the commission, which LAS originally commissioned as the first major project within our Sensing Quantum programme. The programme brings together leading artists, scientists and thinkers to explore how emerging quantum technologies are being developed and understood across society and how artistic practice can open new ways of sensing, imagining and engaging with these ideas.
Bettina Kames, Co-founder and CEO, LAS Art Foundation
LAS Art Foundation presents: Laure Prouvost: Nous, frissons d’étoiles to 18th July 2026, Grand Palais
About the artist
Laure Prouvost is known for immersive installations that combine film, sculpture, sound, language and performance into richly sensory environments. Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, Prouvost creates dreamlike worlds where narratives unfold through fragmented storytelling, playful humour and unexpected associations. Her work often invites viewers to navigate spaces that feel simultaneously intimate, disorientating and deeply imaginative.
Drawing on themes of memory, migration, communication and human connection, Prouvost frequently combines everyday objects with fantastical elements, creating environments that challenge conventional ways of seeing and understanding the world. Language itself becomes a material within her practice, shifting between translation, misunderstanding and invention. Balancing emotional warmth with conceptual complexity, her installations encourage audiences to embrace uncertainty, curiosity and the possibilities of alternative perspectives.
Prouvost represented France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and was awarded the Turner Prize in 2013. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, creating works that are as intellectually engaging as they are visually and emotionally immersive.
