Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Image: Mimosa Échard, Escape more, exhibition view, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022).
Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Chantal Crousel.
Photo : Aurélien Mole. © Mimosa Echard / ADAGP, Paris (2022).
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Mimosa Échard
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Mimosa Échard's multidisciplinary practice bridges the surreal, mechanical and terrestrial in pursuit of plant and human symbiosis. Échard has a research-led practice that spans assemblage, painting, ceramics and video games. For the Prix Marcel Duchamp, she designed what she calls an "ambiguous architectural object," an uninterrupted water screen reminiscent of human liquids — blood, tears and urine. "I’ve wanted to work with water screens for a long time, I’ve been thinking about this piece for a long time, you could say it’s a liquid painting, but it’s also an encrypted image, it’s also an inaccessible space," she said in a statement. A video of a woman, flitting in and out of frame, plays behind the falling water.
Turner Prize 2022
Image: Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan.
Installation View at Tate Liverpool 2022.
Photo: © Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood).
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Veronica Ryan
Turner Prize
Veronica Ryan was awarded the Turner Prize 2022. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said Ryan's work "lends new poetry" to materials that are "usually overlooked and usually thrown away." She was shortlisted for her exhibition Along a Spectrum, which took place at Spike Island in Bristol in 2021. The show featured forms cast in clay and bronze; sewn, tea-stained and dyed fabrics; and crocheted fishing line pouches filled with seeds, fruit stones and skins. Similar forms and materials, which reference Ryan's Caribbean heritage, appeared in her contribution to the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Liverpool. These were displayed on the floor, on shelves, and suspended from crochet bags in a sunglow yellow room.
2023 Nasher Prize
Image: Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. Reverie "Scribe", 2014. Nylon mesh, sand and found metals.
231.14x137.16x170.18 cm, 91×54×67 inches. Courtesy the Artist, Sprüth Magers, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York and Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York and London. Photo: Timo Ohler.
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Senga Nengudi
Nasher Prize
The American artist Senga Nengudi is the recipient of the prestigious Nasher Prize, awarded by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Nengudi is best-known for her ethereal sculptures and installations that use hosiery and sand as a medium, and that "speak pointedly to the fragility of the human body and individual agency", says Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher. Nengudi, who is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943, her career spans more than five decades and defies simple categorisation, extending from sculpture and installation to dance, film and photography.
Prix AWARE 2023
Image: Stills from Voiliers et coquelicots by Rose Lowder, 2001. © All rights reserved by the artist / Courtesy of Light Cone
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Rose Lowder
Prix d’honneur
Rose Lowder is the winner of the Prix d’honneur 2023. Though known for her work in experimental cinema, Rose Lowder is also a visual artist. A pioneer of the global and ecological approach to artmaking and with a singular use of technique, she has directed some fifty films. She lives in Avignon, where she co-founded and continues to curate programmes for the Archives du film expérimental. From 1996 to 2005, she was an associate professor at the Université Paris 1 where she taught the history, theory and aesthetics of experimental cinema. In focussing her research on visual perception in relation to the cinematographic means of expression, Lowder concentrated on the different ways one can modify the graphic and photographic visual features of the image as it transforms in time. She has been nominated by Salma Mochtari.
Image: Aesthetics of the Antrum, 2014, Livre, 20,50x17 cm, 88 pages. © Louisa Babari
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Louisa Babari
Prix Nouveau Regard
Louisa Babari is the winner of the Prix Nouveau Regard 2023. Born in 1969 in Moscow to a Russian mother and an Algerian father, Louisa Babari grew up in Algeria, the USSR and France, she now lives and works in Paris. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) in contemporary studies, Russian and cinema, Louisa Babari has a developed a multimedia practice that encompasses video, sound installations, collages and sculpture. She has been nominated by Salma Mochtari.
Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Image: Pascal Leyder, Sans titre, Mixed media on paper, 40x53 cm. Courtesy Escale Nomade, Paris. Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain. Photo credit André Morin
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Pascal Leyder
Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
The Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain was awarded to Pascal Leyder. Belgian artist born in 1988 in Bastogne. He arrived at La "S" Grand Atelier, in Vielsalm in Belgium, in 2008, following a school internship and now regularly attends his plastic art studio. He also participates in the "Choolers Noise Project", in which he draws live, accompanied by noise music. His drawings are regularly published in collective works of illustration and graphic design, notably by Le Dernier Cri and Frémok editions.
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Prix ellipse 2023
Image: Ras Sankara, Mémoire du sang, 2021, performance, photography, 55x45 cm.
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Ras Sankara
Prix ellipse
Ras Sankara is the winner of the third edition of the Prix ellipse dedicated to emerging artists from Togo. Kossi Aféli Agboka, also known as Ras Sankara, is a Togolese self-taught artist. Considered more as a visual artist at the beginning of his career, he turns to performance art in 2015, which is now at the center of his practice, with his body as principal medium. As an artist and an activist for socio-political issues, he expresses and denounces the problems his country and, more broadly, the African continent face, as well as the world. Ras Sankara is also the founder of an artist collective who dedicate themselves and their work to social actions.
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2023
Image: View of the exhibition "INFILTRÉES - 5 manières d'habiter le monde", Acacias Art Center, Paris Ser Serpas, 2023
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Ser Serpas
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
Ser Serpas is the winner of the Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2023. A young American artist living in Paris, she has been recognized for her artistic approach and the sensitivity of her works, which reflect the tensions that shake today's society. Ser Serpas' works form abstract poems that tell of our relationship to our environment and our ability to make it ours, to reassemble it as much as to sublimate it. The artist is not content to just grapple with the world, she works just as much to reconfigure it aesthetically and conceptually, to propose other imaginaries and other ways of making the world, together.
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Bennett Prize
Image: Shiqing Deng, Visual Art, oil on linen, 2021, 72"x48".
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Shiqing Deng
Bennett Prize
Painter Shiqing Deng, of Brooklyn, New York, was named the winner of the third Bennett Prize. Shiqing Deng uses her paintings to explore the "relationships between virtual manipulated reality and the tangible world." This exploration takes the form of strange and mysterious narratives populated by small figurative groups or single actors. Shiqing’s stories are drawn primarily from the personal. Clothing becomes a starting point for both concealing and expressing the body, a second skin that provides visual clues to the invented stories. Planar and drawn elements within the clothing distort the three-dimensional illusion of the figure and elongated limbs further exaggerate the distortions of space.
