Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Image: Detail of the installation by Gaëlle Choisne for the exhibition of nominees for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024, Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost.
ART
Gaëlle Choisne
Prix Marcel Duchamp
French-Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024. Choisne was born in 1985 in Cherbourg and now works in Paris. She is represented by Air de Paris, Romainville (Grand Paris). She was nominated for the prize alongside Abdelkader Benchamma, artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Noémie Goudal. The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 exhibition is on now through 6 January 2025 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the exhibition, Choisne presents her installation L'Ère du Verseau [The Age of Aquarius] (2024), which includes structures made of cork, large painted panels and video projections. She describes the work as "an island, an archipelago, a place where different realities accumulate to be reinvented and repaired".
RIBA Stirling Prize 2024
Image: Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis, Elizabeth Line, London, UK, 2022. © Hufton + Crow
ARCHITECTURE
Elizabeth Line by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis
RIBA Stirling Prize
The Elizabeth Line, London’s new transport network, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis has been named as the winner of the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize. The Elizabeth Line is the result of a remarkable collaboration between architects, engineers and designers. Together they have designed a highly-inclusive, cohesive transport system that has already evidenced its social, environmental and economic value. Connecting Reading and Heathrow to Essex and South East London, the development spans 62 miles of track and 26 miles of tunnels, a complex and expansive undertaking accommodating 700,000 passengers every weekday.
Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard 2024
Image: Exhibition views, All the Messages Are Emotional, Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2024. © Aurélien Mole
ART
Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard
For the first time in its history, the Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard is awarded collectively to all seven artists nominated by curator Arlène Berceliot Courtin. Their works are on show in the exhibition All the Messages Are Emotional, on view at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris until 31 October 2024. The seven winning artists are: Clémentine Adou, Madison Bycroft, HaYoung, Charlotte Houette, Lenio Kaklea, Paul Maheke and Mona Varichon. They all share a multidisciplinary approach and a particular attraction to movement.
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Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires – Hyères 2024
Image: Dolev Elron, ‘Casual Turbulence’ collection, Fashion Show.
FASHION
Dolev Elron
Grand Prix du jury Première Vision
Israeli designer Dolev Elron won the top prize at the 39th edition of the Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires – Hyères. He impressed the jury headed by Courrèges artistic director Nicolas Di Felice with a collection of distorted menswear staples titled ‘Casual Turbulence.’ Based in Stockholm and trained at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Elron is a junior designer in menswear at Acne Studios. "It’s about distorting archetypes of hyper masculinity and basic items that we all have in our closet – recognizable and familiar," he said at a showroom presentation. "This familiarity brings comfort and the comfort that it brings allows a space for disruption."
Image: Arhant Shrestha, My Sister Running Away.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Arhant Shrestha
Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L
In photography, the jury chaired by Spanish artist Coco Capitan, awarded the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L to Arhant Shrestha, a Bard College graduate now based in Kathmandu, Nepal, for his exploration of an imaginary nocturnal version of his home city, to "capture the nostalgia of my past imagination before the reality of Kathmandu today could wash it away." The 7L bookshop was founded in 1999 by Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, acquired by CHANEL in 2021, 7L celebrates its founder’s unconditional love for books and photography.
Image: Chiyang Duan, ‘Distorted Objects’ collection.
ACCESSORIES
Chiyang Duan
Grand Prix du jury Accessoires
Finally, the accessories competition, chaired this year by Camper Artistic Director Achilles Ion Gabriel, also awarded its grand prize. It went to London-based Chinese designer Chiyang Duan and his ‘Distorted Objects’ collection playing on upgrades to extend the lifecycle of eyewear and bags, turning them into organic-looking creatures.
About the Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires – Hyères
Darmo Art Prize 2024
Image: Raphaëlle Bertran, Soleil jaune sale, 255 x 180 cm, 2022.
ART
Raphaëlle Bertran
Darmo Art Prize
Raphaëlle Bertran is the winner of the Darmo Art Prize 2024, which supports and recognises emerging artists. She creates large-scale paintings that combine philosophical and literary influences to reflect on human history and the complexities of life. Her compositions appear as a condensed version of human history, a universe where absurdity, terror and the force of life come together as a highly topical reflection of the world, a topicality restored from the material of the past.
RA Architecture Prize 2024
Image: 08014 Arquitectura, Pere Matutes 72, 24 Social Housing Units, Ibiza, 2018-2022. Courtesy of El Croquis, photography by Jesús Granada.
ARCHITECTURE
Cris Ballester Parets
Royal Academy Architecture Prize
The Royal Academy Architecture Prize 2024 has been awarded to Cris Ballester Parets representing a remarkable, collective research and production of bioregional social housing on the Balearic Islands undertaken between 2019 and 2023. The jury expressed excitement that this focused regional approach is an exemplar that can be translated to different global contexts and highlighted the importance of this networked and integrated approach in the production of architecture to effect profound environmental and social change.
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Stephen Lawrence Prize 2024
Image: Clementine Blakemore Architects, Wraxall Yard, Dorset, UK, 2022. © Lorenzo Zandri
ARCHITECTURE
Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Architects
Stephen Lawrence Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Architects as the winner of the 2024 Stephen Lawrence Prize. Wraxall Yard sensitively restores and converts the ruins of an old dairy farm into a highly accessible holiday lets with an educational smallholding and community space. Born out of Wraxall Yard Director Nick Read’s personal experience with inaccessible holiday accommodation for wheelchair users and sub-standard retrofits that didn’t centre the experiences of disabled persons, he partnered with architect Clementine Blakemore to create this beautifully-crafted, accommodating destination that offers visitors comfort and independence.
