Laure Prouvost “GDM – Grand Dad’s Visitor Center” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

Laure Prouvost “GDM – Grand Dad’s Visitor Center” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

"GDM - Grand Dad's Visitor Center" is relevant to this week's discussion on institutional critique. In this exhibition, Prouvost creates a museum inside of a museum. The reference to visitor centers in the title directs viewers' thoughts to the structure of the museum itself. In addition, the organization and hierarchy of this museum is confusing and not how a typical museum would be organized. Rather than the subtle tricks museums often use to convey an overarching narrative, Prouvost is conspicuous in her organizational distortion in order to depict her personal narrative.