Laure Prouvost’s ‘We Felt a Star Dying’ Takes Over the Grand Palais Nave

Summary

• Laure Prouvost’s We Felt a Star Dying transforms the Grand Palais into a quantum-inspired immersive installation, on view until July 26, 2026
• Highlights include "The Beginning" sculpture, "Cute Bits" meteorite forms and sensory video environments

Laure Prouvost has transformed Paris’ Grand Palais' iconic glass-roofed nave into a multi-sensory environment, unveiling her major multimedia installation, We Felt a Star Dying. Marking the celebrated French artist's monumental takeover of the historic venue, this spectacular piece explores the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, prompting the foundational question of how reality feels when perceived from a particle-level perspective.

The ambitious project is structured as an immersive narrative world developed from Prouvost's two years of research alongside philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven, which granted her rare access to a powerful quantum computer to generate complex algorithmic data, images and soundscapes. Upon passing through an initiatory entry tunnel — a recurring motif in the artist's practice — visitors are confronted by "The Beginning," a monumental six-limbed kinetic sculpture animated by shifting light and audio.

At the sculpture's core is the central video piece, We Felt a Star Dying, which connects living, non-living, natural and mechanical matter from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. Suspended from the nave's ceiling, whimsical meteorite-like structures called "Cute Bits" (a playful pun on quantum computing's "qubits") float in pairs to mirror the subatomic phenomenon of entanglement.

Laure Prouvost's We Felt a Star Dying is currently on view in the North Nave of the Grand Palais until July 26, 2026.

Grand Palais
Access: 7 Avenue Winston Churchill,
75008 Paris, France

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