Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Nominated Artists
Image: Abdelkader Benchamma, Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss. Installation view: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2023. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the artist and Templon / Adagp, Paris 2024.
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Abdelkader Benchamma
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in 1975 in Mazamet (France), Abdelkader Benchamma lives and works in Paris and Montpellier. He is represented by the gallery Templon Paris / Brussels/ New York and ADN Galeria, Barcelona. Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Montpellier and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Abdelkader Benchamma has chosen black and white drawing as his preferred medium. Varying graphic approaches, he sometimes works on paper with a fine, meticulous line, like an engraver, or escapes the frame in an organic growth. Nourished by literature, philosophy, astrophysics and esoteric reflections, he creates visual scenarios that question our relationship with reality, probing the boundaries with the invisible.
Image: Gaëlle Choisne, Safe space for a passing History, 2023. Exhibition view: Reiffers Art Initiatives, Lorna Simpson Mentorship 2023, Acacias Art Center, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole / Adagp, Paris 2024.
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Gaëlle Choisne
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in Cherbourg in 1985, Gaëlle Choisne lives and works in Paris and Berlin. She is represented by the gallery Air de Paris, Paris and Nicoletti Contemporary, London. Her sculptures and videos combine esoteric traditions and Creole myths with the vestiges of colonialism in opulent installations. Literary imaginaries and popular beliefs are the themes of her exhibitions, which she conceives as inclusive platforms. She invites citizens, researchers and musicians to collaborate in research workshops, practical workshops, cooking classes and improvised concerts.
Image: Detanico & Lain, Iris (from les Métamorphoses d’Ovide), 2019, installation, edition of 5.
Courtesy Detanico Lain & Martine Aboucaya.
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Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in Brazil in 1974 and 1973 respectively, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain live and work in Paris. They have formed a Franco-Brazilian duo since 1996 and are represented by the gallery Martine Aboucaya, Paris and LMNO, Brussels. Trained as semiologists-linguists and graphic designers, they question the role and place of language in our society and have made their mark on the artistic scene through installations comprising videos, murals and sound works that combine texts, cartography and quotes. Their work draws on the world of graphic design and communication, subtly subverting the codes in a conceptual, refined and rigorous visual vocabulary imbued with great poetry.
Image: Noémie Goudal, Giant Phoenix VI, 2022. Inkjet print on aluminium and steel, 345x389.8x352.8 cm. Edition of 3 + 2 artist's proofs. Photo: Will Amlot / courtesy Edel Assanti / Adagp, Paris 2024.
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Noémie Goudal
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in 1984, Noémie Goudal lives and works in Paris. She is represented by the gallery Edel Essanti, London. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London and Saint Martins School, Noémie Goudal uses photography, video and installations. Her poetic photographic work oscillates between reality and fiction, inviting the strange into her settings, she renews the notion of landscape. She deconstructs the way we perceive a landscape in order to reconstruct it differently, seeking new perspectives and new angles of observation. Noémie Goudal's work captures the fragility of man and nature, inviting viewers to question the relationship between them.
About the Prix Marcel Duchamp Nominated Artists
Photo London 2024
Image: Valérie Belin, Still Life with Mirror, 2014. Copyright Valérie Belin, courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris and Brussels.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Valérie Belin
Master of Photography
Photography fair Photo London declared Valérie Belin their Master of Photography for 2024. The annual award goes to a living artist who has made an exceptional contribution to photography. Born in 1964, Belin's practice bridges art and photography. She constructs her images by assembling elaborate tableaux and digitally altering images. In 2015, Valérie Belin presented a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and became the first woman to win the Prix Pictet. A solo exhibition by the artist titled Silent Stories will feature at the ninth edition of Photo London, which takes place from 15 to 19 May this year.
2024 Crystal Award
Image: Kéré Architecture, Gando Primary School, 2001, Burkina Faso.
Photo: Siméon Duchoud / courtesy Kéré Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE
Diébédo Francis Kéré
Crystal Award
Diébédo Francis Kéré received the 2024 Crystal Award for his exemplary leadership in providing the Gando community the means towards a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable future. Kéré is a native of Burkina Faso and studied at the Technical University of Berlin. Parallel to his studies, he established the Kéré Foundation to support the development of his home village. In 2005, he opened the architectural office Kéré Architecture. His architectural practice has received national and international recognition, including: the 2022 Pritzker Prize, the 2023 Praemium Imperiale and the 2024 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, awarded for his first building, the Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso.
Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian
Video Art Production Grant 2023
Image: Shahana Rajani and Jeanne Penjan Lassus, Embodied Cartographies and Visual Entanglements in the Indus Delta, 2020-2022.
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Shahana Rajani
Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian
Video Art Production Grant
Shahana Rajani, born in Pakistan in 1987, is the first recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023. Shahana Rajani is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in tracing practices of belonging and resistance that are emerging at the intersections of sacred geographies, infrastructural violence and the climate crisis in Pakistan. Community-based and collaborative approaches to research are central to her practice. She uses video and sound to explore alternate, embodied ways of relating to the land and to each other.
About the Han Nefkens Foundation – South Asian Video Art Production Grant
