2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: David Chipperfield Architects, Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul, Korea, 2010-2017.
Photo courtesy of Noshe and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
ARCHITECTURE
Sir David Alan Chipperfield
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been awarded the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his profession’s highest honor. "Subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant, he is a prolific architect who is radical in his restraint," the jury said in a statement. With a career spanning over four decades, Chipperfield has worked across various typologies, geographies and scales. From his initial projects in England such as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames or fashion designer Issey Miyake's London store to the current restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice, there remains a consistent thread, his reverence for history and culture. David Chipperfield Architects' works constantly stitch contemporary architecture into the fabric of both pre-existing built and natural environments.
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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).
ART
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.
2023 Hasselblad Award
Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Kitchen Table Series, 1990. © Carrie Mae Weems
PHOTOGRAPHY
Carrie Mae Weems
Hasselblad Award
The Hasselblad Foundation announced Carrie Mae Weems as the 2023 Hasselblad Award winner, making her the first African American woman to claim the prestigious honor. Over nearly four decades, Weems has explored the subjectivity of personal and global history through a racial and feminist lens. Her oeuvre spans multimedia installation, video and performance, but she’s most celebrated for her photography, which has a sparse composition that belie complex ruminations on familial and romantic entanglements. The Kitchen Table Series (1990), considered a seminal body of contemporary photography, stars Weems herself and is set at a kitchen table. As the tableaux is rearranged with a cast of lovers, friends and family, she’s both the protagonist and perpetual observer, "a guide into circumstances seldom seen," according to Weems.
Prix AWARE 2023
Image: Stills from Voiliers et coquelicots by Rose Lowder, 2001. © All rights reserved by the artist / Courtesy of Light Cone
ART
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.
2023 LVMH Prize
Image: Setchu, SS 2023 collection
FASHION
Setchu
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Satoshi Kuwata’s Setchu is the winner of the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. The 39-year-old Japanese creator, stood out for his vision that includes "not only clothes, but a philosophy," said jury member Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s creative director for womenswear. After graduating from Central Saint Martins, Kuwata went on to work at Givenchy under Riccardo Tisci and LVMH’s now-defunct Edun label before starting his own brand. Now in its fifth season, Milan-based Setchu mixes British tailoring techniques with Japanese traditions like origami. Clients are given instructions on how to roll or fold jackets for storage and travel, using techniques inspired by kimono culture that both minimise the space taken up by garments and preserve pleats and creases integrated in the design.
Biennale Architettura 2023
Image: Demas Nwoko, Dominican Chapel, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977. (Image credit: Andrew Esiebo)
ARCHITECTURE
Demas Nwoko
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Architettura 2023. Demas Nwoko was at the forefront of Nigeria’s Modern Art movement. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works. "The profound desire to blend and synthesise, rather than sweep away, has characterised Nwoko's work for over five decades. He was one of the first Nigerian makers of space and form to critique Nigeria’s reliance on the West for imported materials and goods, as well as ideas, and has remained committed to using local resources.", said Lesley Lokko in a statement.
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023
Image: Samuel Fosso Autoportrait, from the Series 70’s Lifestyle, 1976 © Samuel Fosso
Courtesy of the artist and JM Patras, Paris
PHOTOGRAPHY
Samuel Fosso
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Samuel Fosso received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023. The artist was shortlisted for his exhibition ‘Samuel Fosso’ at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (10 November 2021 – 13 March 2022). Since the mid-1970s, Samuel Fosso (b. 1962, Kumba, Cameroon) has dedicated his artistic practice to self-portraits and performative photography. Playing the role of key historical figures and social archetypes in front of the camera, Fosso embodies a powerful way of existing in the world, and a vivid demonstration of photography’s role in the construction of myths.
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Turner Prize 2022
Image: Turner Prize 2022: Veronica Ryan.
Installation View at Tate Liverpool 2022.
Photo: © Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood).
ART
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.
Design Parade Hyères
Image: Yassine Ben Abdallah, Mémoires de la plantation. © j.vandegruiter
DESIGN
Yassine Ben Abdallah
Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères
Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères
Yassine Ben Abdallah has been awarded the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères and the Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères for his project Mémoires de la plantation. Questionning what remains of the history of sugar cane cultivation when the material objects handled by slaves and field workers have disappeared, Yassine Ben Abdallah used sugar to recreate ephemeral machetes that will also disappear over time. In three artefacts, the artist and designer questions the preservation of heritage and its social class biases in a sober and direct but evocative way.
2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards
Image: LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi, Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show.
FASHION
LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi
Grand Prize
LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi is the Grand Prize winner of the 2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards. Paris-based Nouchi, who sought to redefine male sensuality with his spring 2024 collection inspired by the 1964 novel "A Single Man" and presented on June 22, proposes gender-fluid collections with a literary inspiration, prioritizing the use of fabrics with low environmental impact, natural dyes and buttons and labels made of recycled plastic. Ester Manas and Duran Lantink were jointly awarded the Special Prize, Avellano was the Pierre Bergé Prize winner.
