Prix ellipse 2023
Image: Ras Sankara, Mémoire du sang, 2021, performance, photography, 55 x 45 cm
ART
Ras Sankara
Prix ellipse
Ras Sankara is the winner of the third edition of the Prix ellipse dedicated to emerging artists from Togo. Kossi Aféli Agboka, also known as Ras Sankara, is a Togolese self-taught artist. Considered more as a visual artist at the beginning of his career, he turns to performance art in 2015, which is now at the center of his practice, with his body as principal medium. As an artist and an activist for socio-political issues, he expresses and denounces the problems his country and, more broadly, the African continent face, as well as the world. Ras Sankara is also the founder of an artist collective who dedicate themselves and their work to social actions.
Prix MAIF pour la sculpture 2023
Image: Arthur Hoffner, Fragilités, project for the prix MAIF pour la sculpture 2023
ART
Arthur Hoffner
Prix MAIF pour la sculpture
Arthur Hoffner is the winner of the Prix MAIF pour la sculpture for his project Fragilités. For his winning project Arthur Hoffner will put technique at the service of illusion and wonder. His sculpture will continuously generate a stream of mist-filled soap bubbles that explode into a vaporous cloud. To give life to this poetic and intriguing project, the artist has planned a complex technical device, which will be carefully hidden, taking on a techno-magical appearance, like an invitation to meditative contemplation.
About the Prix MAIF pour la sculpture
Circulation(s) 2023
Image: BODY COPY © Mitchell Moreno
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mitchell Moreno
Prix du public
Closing the thirteenth edition of the Circulation(s) festival dedicated to European photography, the Prix du public was awarded to photographer Mitchell Moreno for their series of self-portraits BODY COPY. The series explores the performance of masculinities in digital culture. From ads found on gay and queer dating sites, Mitchell Moreno tries to create "ideal" replies to these texts with sophisticated self-portraits. Stylist, decorator, subject and photographer all at once, the artist made each image at their London home on a shoestring.
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.
2023 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
Image: © Christina Ebenezer
FASHION
Grace Wales Bonner
BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
Grace Wales Bonner, founder of WALES BONNER, is the winner of the 2023 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund. Caroline Rush, chief executive officer of the BFC, said the designer has "created a space for a cultural conversation that inspires future generations. Her intellectual approach to design has resulted in multiple collaborations across the creative space, demonstrating the brand’s clear ability to resonate with consumers and achieve commercial success." Wales Bonner, an LVMH Prize winner, founded her label in 2014 shortly after graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins.
About the BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund
Prix Balzac 2023
Image: Sylvain Parisot - Restaurant Jeanne Aimée / Noemie Sauve ©Claire Curt
ART
Sylvain Parisot & Noémie Sauve
Prix Balzac
The Prix Balzac pour la création contemporaine, installed on a biennial rhythm, takes another form this year with five cook/artist duos, whose work must be based on the Comédie humaine. The jury rewarded the duo formed by Sylvain Parisot and Noémie Sauve. The first is a promising young chef who opened his first restaurant, Jeanne Aimée, in Paris last spring, the second is a visual artist very concerned with questions of food resources and local farming practices. Drawing from the Lys dans la vallée the image of the fern, they made on one side, a recipe for artichoke with bacon in a kombu paper shell and on the other, sand, blown glass and dry fern on paper.
Prix ISEM 2023
Image: La Guareña series © Javier Arcenillas
PHOTOGRAPHY
Javier Arcenillas
Grand Prix ISEM
Javier Arcenillas is the winner of the Grand Prix ISEM 2023 for his series La Guareña. Recognized Spanish photographer, who practices and teaches documentary photography, Javier Arcenillas was born in Bilbao in 1973. His work is part of a new documentary form which combines, in the form of diptychs, portraits and solarigraphs with very long exposures that generate strange pictures. The notion of passing time resonates here perfectly with the precarious situation of the last inhabitants of La Guareña, a region threatened by desertification.
