Bourses ADIAF Emergence – Catawiki

Image: Prosper Legault, Je te fais marché, (de l'art contemporain), 2020

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Prosper Legault

Shivay La Multiple

Rayane Mcirdi

Bourses ADIAF Emergence – Catawiki

Prosper Legault, Shivay La Multiple and Rayane Mcirdi are the winning artists of the first edition of the Bourses ADIAF Emergence - Catawiki. Prosper Legault's practice lies on the border between sculpture and poetry. From the remains of signs or street furniture he produces three-dimensional collages. Through multiple media, Shivay La Multiple creates lines of flight towards new worlds. Her research goes from global to visceral, from macro to micro, from dream to reality, from physical to digital. Rayane Mcirdi's films are based on stories, memories and anecdotes collected from those close to him. He collects, by borrowing certain gestures from the ethnographer, intimate words, before translating them into video.

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Prix Louis Roederer de la Photographie
pour le développement durable

Image: Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Behold the Ocean, 2020. © Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

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Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

Prix Louis Roederer de la Photographie
pour le développement durable

The Prix Louis Roederer de la Photographie pour le développement durable was awarded to Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah for her series Behold the Ocean. For this series the artist followed two young Chilean ocean scientists on an expedition on the Strait of Magellan to the glacier of Santa Inés in the southernmost of Patagonia, in December 2020. Their research focuses on shifts in the marine ecosystem triggered by climate change.

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Deutsche Börse Photography

Foundation Prize 2022

Image: Deana Lawson, Chief, 2019.
© Deana Lawson, Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

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Deana Lawson

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

Deana Lawson is best known for her portraits of Black men and women often posed in domestic settings. While these images may appear to be documentary, they tend to involve sitters who are strangers. Periodically, Lawson’s work has also involved ready-made imagery that she places alongside the pictures she herself has shot. She has also branched out into filmmaking. It was Lawson’s 2020 show at the Kunsthalle Basel, Centropy, which focused on states of chaos and order, that won her the prize.

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Latinx Artist Fellowship

Image: Jay Lynn Gomez, Las Meninas, cardboard figures: acrylic on cardboard on wood backing.
Fragile Pictures, wall sections: acrylic and tape on cardboard on wood backing.
Installation 2019.

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Latinx Artist Fellowship

Last year, the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, joined forces to establish the Latinx Artist Fellowship, which will support the work of 75 Latinx artists at various stages in their careers over a five-year period. This year’s group of artist include pioneering artists like Chicana fiber artist Amalia Mesa-Bains, who is known for her groundbreaking altar installations; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood; and María Magdalena Campos Pons. Other grantees include some of today’s most closely watched artists, like painter Jay Lynn Gomez, the video collective Las Nietas de Nonó, and Tanya Aguiñiga, who won the Heinz Award in 2021 and oversaw an initiative known as the BIPOC Exchange at this year’s Frieze Los Angeles.

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Photo London

Image: Max Miechowski, Butterfly, Land Loss, 2020. 90x72cm.
© Max Miechowski – courtesy of Open Doors Gallery

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Max Miechowski

Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award

Visual artist Max Miechowski, represented by Open Doors Gallery, is the winner of the 2022 Award. Open Doors Gallery dedicated their booth to Max’s latest project Land Loss. The series focuses on the hypnotic beauty of the UK’s East Coast, the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. Captured over multiple trips to the area, the series tenderly charts the relentlessly changing scenery as well as intimately exploring the human stories of an area that will ultimately disappear into the sea.

Image: Nana Yaw Oduro, Somebody tells me why everything happens, 2020. 60x60 cm.
© Nana Yaw Oduro – courtesy of the artist and AFIKARIS

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Nana Yaw Oduro

People’s Choice

This year’s People’s Choice winner is Nana Yaw Oduro, represented by Afrikaris Gallery. Inspired by his local environment and inner emotions, based in Accra, Ghana, photographer Nana Yaw Oduro describes his aesthetic as "refreshing and real", his photography explores boyhood, masculinity, acceptance, and self-awareness. These are topics that have gotten this up and coming artist a cult following, both at home and abroad, who are entirely in love with his abstract portraiture and bold use of colour and contrast.

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Archibald Prize 2022

Image: Blak Douglas, Moby Dickens, 2022.
Synthetic polymer paint on linen. 300 x 200 cm.

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Blak Douglas

Archibald Prize

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) announced Blak Douglas the winner of the 2022 Archibald Prize, Australia's pre-eminent prize for portraiture, for his portrait of artist Karla Dickens. "Spiritually, we all know that Mother Earth is angry at us," says Blak Douglas, Sydney-based artist with Dhungatti heritage. His portrait of Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens is a metaphor for the disastrous floods that hit New South Wales, Australia, in early 2022. Its title references the 1851 novel Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. Douglas says, "Karla is Moby – a strong, prized figure pursued by foreign combatants."

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