Fonds de Dotation Vendredi soir
Image: Théo Mercier, installation view from "Outremonde",
solo show at Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2021. © Erwan Fichou
ART
Anton Hirschfeld
Théo Mercier
Sylvie Sauvageon
Fonds de Dotation Vendredi soir
Created last September at the initiative of Serge Toubiana, president of UniFrance, in homage to novelist and collector Emmanuèle Bernheim, who was his companion, the Fonds de Dotation Vendredi soir will reward every year three novelists and three visual artists or photographers.
Anton Hirschfeld has developed a practice closely linked to writing. The artist covers his sheet with a list of names - friends, family, guests, playlists - and then uses it as a frame for his painting.
Théo Mercier was nominated for his multifaceted work, the questions of which are at the crossroads of anthropology, geopolitics and tourism.
Sylvie Sauvageon was chosen for her pencil drawings meticulously depicting objects from her entourage, in a quest almost obsessive in listing reality and clarifying its relationship with it.
About the Fonds de Dotation Vendredi soir
Audain Prize 2021
Image: James Hart, The Dance Screen (The Scream Too), 2010-2013. © Bob Frid
ART
James Hart
Audain Prize
The Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards, was given to artist James Hart (7idansuu), the hereditary chief of the Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, who lives between Vancouver and Haida Gwai off the Northwest coast of British Columbia. By virtue of his European father, Hart avoided Canada’s Indian residential school system where 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to attend institutions rife with abuse and what has been termed "cultural genocide". Instead he found his calling in high school and apprenticed first with Robert Davidson in 1978 and then worked as an assistant for Bill Reid from 1980-84, when his Parkinson’s Disease prevented him from carving.
Heinz Awards
Image: Sanford Biggers, "Reconstruction", 2019, antique quilt, birch plywood, gold leaf.
From "Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch" at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, September 9, 2020 - April 4, 2021.
Courtesy of Sanford Biggers and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; RCH Photogragraphy.
ART
Tanya Aguiñiga
Sanford Biggers
Arts Award
The Los Angeles-based activist artist Tanya Aguiñiga, who was born and raised near the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, blends sculpture, performance and craft in her practice, creating works that spark dialogue around immigration and the ongoing border crisis. For the 2020 performance Metabolising the Border, the artist designed a bodysuit that incorporated remnants of the border wall, then walked the length of the wall for more than one hour.
The New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers works across various media, creating works rooted in mythological and spiritual references. His works are often tied to themes related to the Black diaspora; in his retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts last year, the artist presented a series of sculptural paintings that amalgamated antique quilts, referencing the quilts that were used as signposts along the Underground Railroad to help enslaved people flee to free states.
Soane Medal 2021
Image: Bait ur Rouf Jame Mosque, Faidabad, Uttara, Dhaka, architect Marina Tabassum.
© Sandro Di Carlo Darsa
ARCHITECTURE
Marina Tabassum
Soane Medal
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has been awarded the 2021 Soane Medal. Founder and principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), she describes her human-centric, sustainability-driven approach to practice as "the architecture of relevance". One of her best-known works is the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, which features perforated brickwork so that sun and air can reach its prayer hall, and which won Tabassum the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Tabassum's recent projects have seen her working in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar and designing low-cost Khudi Bari ("Tiny House") mobile and modular housing kits for families affected by flooding in the Ganges delta region.
Camera Austria Award
for Contemporary Photography
Image: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, from the exhibition "This World Is White No Longer.
Views of a Decentered World", Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum,
April 24 - October 10, 2021.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Camera Austria Award
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński won the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography awarded biennially by the City of Graz.
The artist photographic work is closely tied to the researching and unsettling of colonial history and its legacy. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński creates photographs, but also collages, films, performances, installations, and writings, which scrutinize how the experiences and narratives of Black individuals are suppressed or marginalized. Her sharp analysis of visual regimes and hegemonic epistemologies is based on research conducted in collections, museums, archives, and libraries.
About the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography
The Vasseur BALTIC Artists’ Award 2022
Image: Installation view from solo exhibition "Laleh Khorramian: Unearth" at September Gallery, Hudson, New York, 2019.
Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Mauney
ART
Ima-Abasi Okon
Laleh Khorramian
Fernando García-Dory
The Vasseur BALTIC Artists’ Award
BALTIC's biennial award was established to recognise artists deserving of an international platform and offers a step-change moment in their career, each receiving an exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, funding to realise new work and an artist fee. Three established international artists are invited to nominate an artist in the early stages of their career.
For the 2022 iteration, Otobong Nkanga has nominated Ima-Abasi Okon, Mika Rottenberg has nominated Laleh Khorramian and Hito Steyerl has nominated Fernando García-Dory.
About the Vasseur BALTIC Artists’ Award
Dezeen Awards 2021
Image: Common Sands – Forite tiles by Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni.
DESIGN
Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni
Sustainable design of the year
Norwegian studio Snøhetta has worked with Belgian designers Studio Plastique and Italian manufacturer Fornace Brioni to produce tiles made of glass from discarded ovens and microwaves. Currently in the prototype stage, the Common Sands project suggests a new possible use for glass from used electronic goods, a waste material that the project team says is currently almost never recycled. The Common Sands Forite tiles feature an almost terrazzo-like melange of glass pieces, with colours including green, gold and black mottling the translucent slabs.
