Prix villa Noailles
des Révélations Emerige 2022
Image: "LA1956x (After Hubble)", Gillian Brett, 2021, écrans LCD, 79,5 x 97,5 x 5 cm.
Galerie de la Scep, Marseille.
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Gillian Brett
Prix villa Noailles des Révélations Emerige
The Prix villa Noailles des Révélations Emerige was awarded to Gillian Brett. Born in 1990 in Paris, Gillian Brett lives and works in Marseille. Her work explores the relationship between technology and humans. Composed of the debris of mechanical and electronic devices, her works highlight the material reality of the digital universe, far from the promises of a society liberated by technology, in a critique of modernity that is both ironic and disenchanted. She will benefit from a three-month residency at the villa Noailles for an exhibition presented at the Ancien Évêché de Toulon in December 2023.
Image: Nefeli Papadimouli, Milieu Mouvant, Paris, 2022. Courtesy pal project.
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Nefeli Papadimouli
Mention spéciale
Born in Athens in 1988, artist and architect Nefeli Papadimouli received a special mention from the jury. She will be invited to present a performance at the 38th Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode – Hyères. Her work, halfway between sculpture, film, installation and performance, is inspired by the avant-garde of the early 20th century, the German painter and decorator Oskar Schlemmer and the American dancer Trisha Brown to question the notion of space, through the prism of its relationship with the body and the collective.
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2023 AIA Gold Medal
Image: Ross Barney Architects, Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
completed 2005. © Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing Photographers
ARCHITECTURE
Carol Ross Barney
AIA Gold Medal
Chicago-based architect, Carol Ross Barney, has been awarded the 2023 Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architecture, for her achievements as a designer and an educator. Educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Barney joined the Peace Corps where she helped to build up the Costa Rica National Park Service before returning to Chicago in 1981 to found her studio – Ross Barney Architects. An early major commission included the redesign of the Oklahoma City Federal Building after the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, creating a U-shaped building that indicated "hope in the face of overwhelming tragedy". Barney is also known for her extensive work rejuvenating the Chicago River waterfront.
2022 Don Tyson Prize for the
Advancement of American Art
Image: Deborah Willis, Carrie at Euro Salon, Eatonville, 2010. Courtesy de l’artiste
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Deborah Willis
Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art
Renowned photographer and creative pioneer Deborah Willis, Ph.D., received the 2022 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art, awarded biennially by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. As an artist, author and curator, Willis’ art and research has focused on cultural histories envisioning the Black body, women and gender. "There is something about looking at images that forces me to question the narratives of the past. I have long been puzzled by the imagery of Black peoples, and I have tried to make sense of the story that has been told," Willis said.
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BMW ART MAKERS
Image: © Doline, 2022, huile, acrylique et sérigraphie sur toile/© Eva Nielsen
ART
Eva Nielsen and Marianne Derrien
BMW ART MAKERS
Artist Eva Nielsen and curator Marianne Derrien are the winners of the visual arts sponsorship program BMW ART MAKERS #2 for their SpectroGéographies project co-designed as part of the program especially for the Rencontres d'Arles and Paris Photo. Their approach, both poetic and scientific, combines images, painting, architecture and digital tools in order to question time and the sedimentation of the Camargue landscape. SpectroGéographies evokes the changes in the environment caused by man, which lead to the disappearance of certain urban, industrial and natural landscapes, with a particular interest in the interzones between cities and countryside.
Global Eco Artisan Awards 2022
Image: Chuba Ko, team of weavers from Sikkim, India, Marketing Promotion & Product Design Support winner in the Endangered Crafts category. © Kunga Tashi Lepcha
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Global Eco Artisan Awards
The Global Eco Artisan Awards for 2022 were awarded with a spotlight on indigenous craft. The GEAA platform, put on by the Agaati Foundation, is designed to celebrate and champion the global artisan community and endangered craft. Winners like Chuba Ko, a women-led project preserving indigenous wool-felting techniques in the village of Chuba in South Sikkim, India, offered their remarks on the importance of the awards ceremony to their community. Chuba Ko is funded by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, and seeks to engage, empower and enable women of Chuba.
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Prix de Rome Architecture 2022
Image: Lesia Topolnyk, No Innocent Landscape, Prix de Rome Architecture 2022.
ARCHITECTURE
Lesia Topolnyk
Prix de Rome Architecture
Lesia Topolnyk is the winner of the Prix de Rome 2022, with an entry inspired by the wreckage site of flight MH17, in response to the theme of 'Healing Sites'. With her design No Innocent Landscape, Topolnyk shows how the landscape that forms the backdrop to such an event represents a complicated interplay of global and local histories. Hrabove is not only the site of the attack on MH17, but also of illegal mining activities which negatively impact the region’s nature and environment. Topolnyk uses narrative and construction techniques to deconstruct this relationship. She argues that trauma processing and reconstruction in such a place can take place only after such a deconstruction, and that architecture can mediate in this.
