Les Rencontres d'Arles 2023
Image: Hannah Darabi, Untitled, digital inkjet printing, Soleil of Persian Square series, 2022.
Courtesy of the artist.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hannah Darabi
Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles
The Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles was awarded to Hannah Darabi. Her series Soleil of Persian Square is a research on the visual identity of the lifestyle of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles. Hannah Darabi tries to give a face to this fictional city called Tehrangeles. She creates links between ordinary landscapes of Los Angeles and Orange County, bearing traces of this Iranian diaspora and portraits of its inhabitants, objects from popular culture, such as cassettes, song lyrics, screenshots of music videos from the 1980s and 1990s...
Image: Isadora Romero, Eye, [ceremonial stone that was presumably used to grind corn by the first inhabitants of the territory Teotitlán del Valle], Then we tame the fire series. Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Isadora Romero
Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer
The Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer was awarded to Isadora Romero. When Isadora Romero discovers that her ancestors were seed keepers, she wonders if the need to tell stories about agrobiodiversity is in her genes. Over the past twenty years, 75% of the world's plant varieties have disappeared. The artist's research asks the following question: how does the loss of ancestral memory and indigenous knowledge – a consequence of colonization, forced displacement and racism – lead to the disappearance of seeds at an alarming rate?
Image: Rosângela Rennó, Untitled (drama queen family), Nuptials series, mixed media, 2017.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Gabriela Carrera.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rosângela Rennó
Prix Women In Motion
Kering and Les Rencontres d'Arles awarded the Prix Women In Motion 2023 to the Brazilian photographer Rosângela Rennó. Born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, she currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in "the way the system tries to erase or manipulate links with the past", the photographer appropriates and transforms archival photographic material into an art installation or a book of photography. Her work is a detailed exploration of time, of forgetting, and the social and psychological changes that affect memory.
Image: 22 Days in Between by Salih Basheer. Editor: Disko Bay. Design: Lars Prevelakis Bai.
PHOTOGRAPHY
22 Days in Between by Salih Basheer
Prix du Livre Photo-Texte
22 Days in Between by Sudanese photographer Salih Basheer received the Prix du Livre Photo-Texte. Looking back to losing both his parents just 22 days apart when he was only three years old, Salih Basheer presents poignant memories in a mix of images, writing, self-portraits and drawings, as fragments of a lost childhood. The book is Salih’s visual process of learning more about his parents and himself and serves as a method of healing from a personal trauma.
Image: Apolis by Arash Fayez.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Apolis by Arash Fayez
LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award
Apolis by Arash Fayez received the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2023. Apolis is a project about his life as a person with no defined migratory status from 2014 to 2018. It is a compilation of two types of material presented in two layers. The bottom layer is his complete U.S. immigration record; it contains forms he had to fill out, applications he had to submit and update notes he received. The top layer is a collection of photographs that Arash Fayez took during those four years.
LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award 2023
Image: Laura Bonnefous, KILAMBA series. © Laura Bonnefous
PHOTOGRAPHY
LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award
48 photographers and artists have been selected to win the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award for 2023. Among the winners, Eyes on Talents member Laura Bonnefous was selected by Robert Morat of Robert Morat Galerie. Explaning his choice, he said: "Laura Bennefous’ project on the city of Kilamba in Angola is both a socio-geographic study and an artful meditation on light and color. Each discipline - portraits, still lifes, urban landscapes - is excecuted masterfully. This was an easy pick for the top spot!".
About the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award
2023 Maria Lassnig Prize
Image: Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: The Exchange, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 244 cm, Courtesy Lubaina Himid and Hollybush Gardens, © Photo: Andy Keate
ART
Lubaina Himid
Maria Lassnig Prize
Lubaina Himid has won the Maria Lassnig Prize, which comes with a financial endowment and a major solo exhibition at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, this edition’s collaborating institution. With a career that spans some four decades, Himid has an influential practice that merges sculpture and installation with her training in set design, collage and painting. Much of her work deals with the legacies of racism and the experiences of living in the UK as a Black person and an immigrant. Despite her outsize influence, Himid came to greater international recognition only recently, after she won the Turner Prize in 2017, making her the first Black woman to do so.
2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards
Image: LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi, Spring 2024 Menswear collection.
FASHION
LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi
Grand Prize
LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi is the Grand Prize winner of the 2023 ANDAM Fashion Awards. Paris-based Nouchi, who sought to redefine male sensuality with his spring 2024 collection inspired by the 1964 novel "A Single Man" and presented on June 22, proposes gender-fluid collections with a literary inspiration, prioritizing the use of fabrics with low environmental impact, natural dyes and buttons and labels made of recycled plastic. Ester Manas and Duran Lantink were jointly awarded the Special Prize, Avellano was the Pierre Bergé Prize winner and the accessories prize went to Ruslan Baginskiy.
About the ANDAM Fashion Awards
Prix Aurelie Nemours 2023
Image: Irma Boom, Book Manifest, Buchhandlung Walther König, 2022.
ART
Irma Boom
Hans Jörg Glattfelder
Prix Aurelie Nemours
The Prix Aurelie Nemours 2023 has been awarded to Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom and Swiss painter Hans Jörg Glattfelder. This is the first time that a graphic designer has received this award. Irma Boom, born in 1960, founded Irma Boom Office in 1991 and gained international notoriety. She carries out commissions ranging from posters to art books in a constructivist spirit. Hans Jörg Glattfelder, born in 1939 in Zurich, lived in Paris before settling in Basel. He is considered a major figure in concrete art, whose genesis dates back to Theo Van Doesburg and the De Stijl movement.
About the Prix Aurelie Nemours
2023 Nivola Award for Sculpture
Image: Nairy Baghramian, Sitzengebliebene / Stay Downers, 2016, polyurethane, laccquered metall, silicone, size installed variable, installation view Déformation Professionnelle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2018, © Nairy Baghramian, © Photo: Timo Ohler
ART
Nairy Baghramian
Nivola Award for Sculpture
Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian is the recipient of the 2023 Nivola Award for Sculpture. Throughout a career spanning over two decades, Nairy Baghramian skillfully explores the boundaries between space, form and material. Her daring and incisive sculptural works invite reflection on the dynamics of human relationships and the complexity of social structures. Through a wide range of materials and techniques, Baghramian challenges traditional sculptural conventions, creating works that defy definitions and reveal new perspectives.
About the Nivola Award for Sculpture
2023 Wheelwright Prize
Image: Orchid, Bee and I (still), co-directed by Chen Zhan and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng.
DESIGN
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
Wheelwright Prize
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) awarded the 2023 Wheelwright Prize to Jingru (Cyan) Cheng. Her project, Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift, focuses on the economic, cultural, and ecological impacts of sand mining and land reclamation. From airports to beaches and river basins to hydroelectric dams, sand is a humble material that has a fundamental role in the built environment and human communities. Supporting modern cities and modern life, sand is a key component of concrete, glass, asphalt roads, and artificial land. However, by dredging underwater systems and channels, sand mining erodes riverbanks and disrupts ecosystems.
