Space, time and architecture in Laure Prouvost's "GDM - Grand Dad's Visitor Center" is the first appointment of the Public Program|Laure Prouvost, a series of meetings and screenings dedicated to broadening and deepening the vision of the exhibition "GDM - Grand Dad's Visitor Center ”, hosted in the Pirelli HangarBicocca shed until 9 April 2017. Conceived as an imaginary museum, the exhibition is the starting point for a program that invites reflection on the themes of Prouvost's work and contemporary art more generally. The tendency to superimpose different visual and cultural sources, the search for an engaging and unsettling relationship with the viewer, the will to create complex and stratified narratives are some of the themes at the center of four appointments with the presence of Italian and foreign guests, which include also an evening of video projections and a concert/performance conceived with the participation of the artist.
Thursday 23 February, Pirelli HangarBicocca presents a meeting with the architects and designers Anna Barbara and Aurora Destro inside “GDM – Grand Dad's Visitor Center”, the museum created by Laure Prouvost for the homonymous exhibition. The two protagonists of this conversation lead the audience through the works of Laure Prouvost and some of the themes addressed in her elusive museum of her: the body and the senses, language and fiction. The dialogue will also involve the audience and will play with the irony of misunderstanding – one of the key themes of Prouvost's work – to then question who is really the protagonist of this “museorama”: the artist, the grandfather, the grandmother – first inspirer of the project – or the visitor?
Anna Barbara, professor of Interior Design at the Design School of the Milan Polytechnic, holds lectures and courses at numerous
international universities in the United States and in China and his research is focused on the relationships between senses, time and space, in design, interior design and architecture. Among his best known publications, Stories of architecture through the senses (Bruno Mondadori, 2000, re-edition Postmedia Books 2011); Invisible architectures. The experience of places through smells (Skira 2006); Senses, time and architecture. Possible spaces for humans and non-humans (Postmedia Books, 2012) and the recent essay Forms of space and time (in S. Yelavich and B. Adams, Design as future-making, Bloomsbury Publisher 2014). In 2016 you founded SenseLab. Aurora Destro lives and works in Milan where she is an architect-designer and “visual-jockey”.
