We Felt A Star Dying

In this work, Prouvost plunges into the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, and the technologies emerging from it. She asks: “what might it feel like to sense reality from a quantum perspective?” Her installation draws video, sound, sculpture, scent and light into a fluid entity tuned to the sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum systems. Lyrical and surreal, it weaves direct experimentation with a quantum computer into a wider reflection on what it means to open oneself to the quantum realm.
Titled We Felt a Star Dying, the video navigates various entities and scales of reality, highlighting quantum as a shared feature of all matter, living or non-living, natural or artificial, near or far. Its journey begins in the installation, moving outward through carpet, cables and concrete. As Prouvost narrates this voyage, she grapples with the conceptual shift required to understand and centre quantum principles. The video is interwoven with segments that were created through a novel experiment with data from a quantum computer.