Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award 2023
Image: Installation view of Amol K Patil, The Politics of Skin and Movement, 2022. Photo: Kochi Biennale Foundation / Joseph Rahul.
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Amol K Patil
Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award
Amol K Patil, visual artist based in Mumbai and Amsterdam, is the first recipient of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award, spotlighting emerging South Asian artists. Patil was selected on the strength of his installation The Politics of Skin and Movement which was presented at the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. As a result of winning the award, he will create a new iteration of his ambitious and meditative work from the Biennale, consisting of a constellation of drawings, sculptures, kinetic objects and moving images. The work questions conditions of labour, casteism and the body. It also touches upon the larger issue of both real and imaginary borders in relation to access and movement for Patil’s community across time and history.
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President*s Design Award 2023
Image: Bjarke Ingels Group, CapitaSpring, Singapore, 2022. Photo: Finbarr Fallon
ARCHITECTURE
Design of the Year
The P*DA 2023 Design of the Year was given to six projects for their groundbreaking design achievements in one or more of the following impact areas: enabling economic transformation, improving quality of life and advancing Singapore's brand, culture and community. One of the winners, CapitaSpring, by Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd and Carlo Ratti Associati, is an exemplar of the green skyscraper of the future. In Singapore’s Central Business District it presents a lush network of offices, residences and recreation that harnesses the restorative power of nature to offer a new social realm for the building’s occupants as well as the general public.
Image: Leonard Ng Keok Poh, Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Singapore, 2012. Photo: Henning Larsen, Shiang Han Lim
ARCHITECTURE
Leonard Ng Keok Poh
AR. Tan Kay Ngee
Designer of the Year
The P*DA 2023 also awarded two Designer of the Year. Leonard Ng Keok Poh, Country Market Director, Henning Larsen, APAC was recognized as a visionary leader in landscape architecture who has shaped many of Singapore’s iconic green public spaces such as Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Kampung Admiralty and Jurong Lake Gardens, while pushing boundaries to further Singapore’s "City in Nature" vision. Tan Kay Ngee, Principal Architect, Kay Ngee Tan Architects was recognized for his body of work in Singapore and for his rich contributions as an architect, educator and writer. From architectural projects such as the Old Bukit Timah Railway Station in Singapore and a villa at the Commune by the Great Wall in China, to his prolific writing, Tan has made architecture more meaningful and accessible.
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Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents 2023
Image: Iris Millot, Mont Lion series, 2022.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Iris Millot
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents
Iris Millot has been awarded the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents for her Mont Lion series. Iris Millot’s long-matured images are valuable for the precious encounter and conversation they reveal with Hélène, her great-aunt, who has been cultivating isolated family farm land lost in the middle of a forest, for 40 years. Combining still life with portraiture, and wide-angle shots with large close-ups, the young photographer discreetly illustrates life choices and their resulting traces.
Image: Jermaine Chua, still from Words of Mouth.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jermaine Chua
Mention spéciale
Jermaine Chua has been awarded a special mention for her work Words of Mouth. Sòlrùn Arnarsdòttir, Gabriel Gayle, Sam Smith, Mariia Ershova, Selina Baldock, Joe Macdonald, Naoko Sato, Bryan Yeo and Alex Bruni, are some of the many names and faces, of all ages, that successively appear in front of Jermine Chua’s immobile camera, in an unchanging pattern: standing up, facing the camera, their faces are captured in an extreme close-up and projected onto a rectangular screen set to their left, on a rough pale wood stand. Intimate but distant, the young artist sees her work as more participative than pre-established, a narrative created by many precious accidents.
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Prix Jeudi des Beaux-Arts - Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art
Image: Lyz Parayzo, Bixinha Ouriço Rectangular, 2022. Polished stainless steel, unique piece, 30x30x30cm. Photo: Lyz Parayzo
ART
Lyz Parayzo
Prix Jeudi des Beaux-Arts - Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art
The brazilian artist Lyz Parayzo has been awarded the Prix Jeudi des Beaux-Arts - Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art for her installation presented at the galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, as part of "À première vue". This event organized until September 1, 2023 by the Beaux-Arts de Paris with Jeudi des Beaux-Arts and the CPGA aims to highlight young graduates by asking galleries in Saint-Germain-des-Prés to exhibit their work. Transgender artist, LGBTQ+ activist, Lyz Parayzo addresses issues of sexuality and violence in her work. She presents at the galerie Arnaud Lefebvre a series of metal works including Bixinhas, meaning "pussy" in Portuguese, whose appearance assimilates them to weapons.
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Prix 1 % Marché de l’art 2023
Image: Prosper Legault, Bienvenue dans la vi(ll)e, église Saint-Eustache, Paris, 2020.
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Prix 1 % Marché de l’art
The winners of the 5th edition of the Prix 1 % Marché de l’art are: Mounir Ayache, awarded for his project "L’odyssée d’Hassan al-Wazzan"; Paul Heintz, awarded for his installation project "Obstruction", combining performance and video; Prosper Legault, awarded for his sculpture project combining signs from the streets of Paris and its suburbs; Chloé Quenum, awarded for her installation project around the notion of dreams "Maison d’éternité"; Elsa Sahal, awarded for her project of sculptures "Bonbon moustache", a Creole expression which designates the female sex; and Liv Schulman, awarded for her film project in the streets of Buenos Aires "Opéra T-Shirt".
