Laure Prouvost, the recipient of the fourth Max Mara Art Prize for Women, presents "Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells" at the Maramotti Collection, until November 3, 2013.

The two-part installation is inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of Italy. Exploring language and translation, Laure Prouvost plays on the historic idea of visiting the Mediterranean for inspiration.

Previously exhibited in London at the Whitechapel Gallery (20 March – 7 April 2013), the work has been purchased for the permanent collection.

As a testimony of the close links that Max Mara has established with the art world, the Collection displays and acquires the works which have won the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, for emerging women artists, working in Great Britain. The winners of the three past editions of the Prize are: Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards and Andrea Büttner.

The Maramotti Collection, born out of the passion of its founder and collector Achille Maramotti, is an international contemporary art collection spanning the years from 1945 till the present day. The collection situated in the historical headquarters of the Max Mara company in Reggio Emilia, was opened to visitors in September 2007.