Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour
l'Intelligence de la Main 2024
Image: Console Pseudosphères by Nadège Mouyssinat.
© Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT
Nadège Mouyssinat
Talents d'exception
Nadège Mouyssinat is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2024 in the section Talents d'exception for her piece Console Pseudosphères, an almost hypnotic work composed of a forest of porcelain cones reflected in a mirror, giving the impression of floating in space. Following four years of creation, from conception to completion, the work was designed to evoke emotion, the visual disturbance gives the viewer a sensation of almost spiritual lightness, with the curves of the cones mirroring the curves of the hyperbolas, which tend towards infinity.
Image: Tresser l'ombre [Weaving the shadow] by Catherine Romand, basket maker and Clémence Althabegoïty, designer. © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT | DESIGN
Catherine Romand and Clémence Althabegoïty
Dialogues
Catherine Romand, basket maker and Clémence Althabegoïty, designer, are the winners of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2024 in the section Dialogues, for their piece Tresser l'ombre [Weaving the shadow], a woven wicker shade, as futuristic as it is poetic. The shade is designed to provide protection from the sun, but also to track the position of its rays in order to identify the seasons, like an immersive sundial. For Tresser l'ombre, the duo first called on Pascal Descamp, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, who defined the sun's trajectories in the Touraine region using a series of algorithms.
Image: © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT
Acta Vista
Parcours
The Acta Vista association is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2024 in the section Parcours. Founded in 2002 in Marseille, the Acta Vista association is focused on the singular objective of making cultural heritage restoration a means of creating jobs and passing on know-how. Since its creation, Acta Vista has trained over 8,500 people and restored some 40 heritage sites in the three regions where the association operates.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main
Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Académie des beaux-arts 2024
Image: Ukraine, Donbass, Avdiivka, 15 November 2021, 1st front line on the military positions of the Ukrainian army at Promzona in the town of Avdiivka. © Guillaume Herbaut / Agence
PHOTOGRAPHY
Guillaume Herbaut
Prix de Photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Académie des beaux-arts
French photographer Guillaume Herbaut is the winner of the Prix de Photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière – Académie des beaux-arts 2024, for his project Ukraine, les blessures invisibles [Ukraine, the invisible wounds]. The aim of the project is to show the deep, invisible wounds that the Ukrainian population has suffered since the start of the war. It will be divided into three parts: the physical and mental suffering of soldiers returning from the front, the psychological damage to civilians and the moral impact on young people, a whole generation of whom have never known peace.
About the Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Académie des beaux-arts
Walters Prize 2024
Image: Ana Iti, A resilient heart like the mānawa, 2024. Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, 2024.
ART
Ana Iti
Walters Prize
Ana Iti was named the winner of the 11th Walters Prize, Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest and most prestigious contemporary art award. Iti's winning work, A resilient heart like the mānawa (2024), is a steel and wood installation inspired by Rāwene wharf, which was built on the Hokianga harbour in 1881. The lower portion of the steel is rusted, as if it were immersed in water, and the sounds of sloshing waves and thumping machiner of a busy harbour accompany the sculptural elements. The work's title references native mangroves, suggesting the strength of Māori in the face of colonisation.
MacArthur Fellowships 2024
Image: Wendy Red Star, Indian Congress, 2021. Site specific installation at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE. Photo: Colin Conces
ART
Tony Cokes
Justin Vivian Bond
Ebony G. Patterson
Wendy Red Star
MacArthur Fellowship
Four artists received the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship, an annual award by MacArthur Foundation presented to individuals in any discipline who have shown ‘exceptional creativity’ and future promise. Conceptual artist Tony Cokes, Jamaican-born painter and installation artist Ebony G. Patterson, and Apsáalooke multimedia artist Wendy Red Star are among the 22 recipients of this year's prize, as well as performance artist and actor Justin Vivian Bond.
About the MacArthur Fellowships
2024 MCHAP.emerge
Image: Natura Futura and Juan Carlos Bamba, Centro Comunitario Productivo Las Tejedoras, Chongón, Guayas, Ecuador, 2023. Photo: JAG Studio
ARCHITECTURE
Centro Comunitario Productivo
Las Tejedoras
MCHAP.emerge
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced the winner of the fifth MCHAP.emerge award: the Centro Comunitario Productivo Las Tejedoras in Guayas, Ecuador, designed by Natura Futura architect José Fernando Gómez and architect Juan Carlos Bamba. The project offers a hub for local women artisans, providing them with spaces to learn, create and showcase their textile creations.
Daniele Tamagni Grant
Image: Ahmed Khirelsid, Under Control. Courtesy Daniele Tamagni Foundation
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ahmed Khirelsid
Daniele Tamagni Grant
Young Sudanese photographer Ahmed Khirelsid is the winner of the third edition of the Daniele Tamagni Grant. His winning series, Under Control, tells his story, the story of the conflict in Khartoum that forced him to flee into the unknown. In his images, the trauma of war and the trauma of uncertainty are palpable. Commenting on his work, he says: "Through this work, I try to explore and understand the psychological and emotional trauma received because of this war, as well as those around me… We fled to a village called Al-Hasaya, where my uncle offered us an abandoned house. We don't know what the next step is. It is a time of waiting and uncertainty."