Laure Prouvost, How To Make Money Religiously, 2014 (video still). Single-channel video, sound, color; 8 min 43 sec. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris and Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin and Madrid) and Lisson Gallery (London, New York, and Shanghai)

For her presentation at the New Museum, Prouvost created “For Forgetting” (2014), an immersive installation made specifically for the Lobby Gallery that explored the problems as well as the possibilities of memory and forgetting. Inspired, in part, by scam emails offering alleged large sums of money, the exhibition addressed the arbitrary distinctions that can be ascribed to possession, power, and promises of success. The installation's central film, "How to Make Money Religiously" (2014), switches between modes of address that are alternately seductive and confrontational, comic and sinister, as she slips in and out of an open-ended fiction. The work expands Prouvost's multilayered investigation of the blunders between systems of communication and conjures diverse interpretations dependent on how we perceive or remember the story.