2024 Charlotte Perriand Award
Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2018, designed by Frida Escobedo Serpentine Gallery, London. © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Photography © 2018 Rafael Gamo
ARCHITECTURE
Frida Escobedo
Charlotte Perriand Award
The Créateurs Design Association & Awards has named Mexican architect Frida Escobedo as the recipient of the Charlotte Perriand Award for 2024. In 2006, she set up her eponymous Mexico City-based studio, where she has developed the varied oeuvre for which she is known today. Among the 44-year-old architect's stand-out achievements is becoming the youngest Serpentine Pavilion architect in 2018. Other key projects by Escobedo include the conversion of the former home of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros into a public gallery, low-cost housing in Hidalgo and an Aztec-inspired installation for the V&A.
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Prix Viviane Esders 2023
Image: Pierre de Vallombreuse, Peuple Badjao. Bornéo. Malaisie. 2016. Children play in the lakeside town built illegally by nomadic Badjaos who came from the Philippines to take refuge in Malaysia.© Pierre de Vallombreuse/prix Viviane Esders
PHOTOGRAPHY
Pierre de Vallombreuse
Prix Viviane Esders
At 61, Pierre de Vallombreuse received the second Prix Viviane Esders rewarding the career of a European photographer aged 60 and over. Essentially in black and white, his work is part of the tradition of documentary photography, at the crossroads of ethnology, with work carried out over a long period of time. Since 1985, he has mainly devoted his work to traveling across the five continents, meeting indigenous peoples to photograph them, convinced of the need to defend the plurality of cultures, to show the nuances of the world and its communities. Among its destinations, the island of Palawan in the Philippines holds a special place. For 34 years, he has followed the lives of its inhabitants to bear witness to their daily lives.
Praemium Imperiale
Image: Gando Primary School, 2001, Burkina Faso. Photo: Siméon Duchoud. Courtesy of Kéré Architecture
ARCHITECTURE
Diébédo Francis Kéré
Praemium Imperiale for Architecture
Pritzker Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré has been named the 2023 Praemium Imperiale laureate for architecture. Francis Kéré, who leads the Berlin-based office Kéré Architecture, has received the prestigious award for his influence on African and global architecture. By engaging the local community, relying on their skills and traditions, and promoting the use of locally available materials, Kéré manages to create modern architecture rooted in traditional African design. The resulting buildings are functional, responding to the needs and the limited budget of their communities without sacrificing the beauty of architecture.
Image: The weather project, 2003. Monofrequency lights, projection foil, haze machines, mirror foil, aluminium, scaffolding. 26.7 x 22.3 x 155.44 m. Tate Modern, London, 2003. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles. © 2003 Olafur Eliasson
ART
Olafur Eliasson
Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
Danish Icelandic practitioner Olafur Eliasson has been named the 2023 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture. Eliasson’s works are ubiquitous globally; earlier this year he was commissioned to create his first permanent outdoor work in the UK—a steel basin filled with sea water—on the Cumbrian coastline in north-west England. Eliasson’s project, provisionally called Your Daylight Destination, was devised in collaboration with the writer Robert Macfarlane. In March he presented his first solo show in the Gulf region (Qatar) focused on climate change.
Image: A Painting in Six Parts (detail), 1986-87 / 2012-16 © Vija Celmins. Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, Collection Glenstone Museum
ART
Vija Celmins
Praemium Imperiale for Painting
Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins has been awarded the 2023 Praemium Imperiale Award for painting. Celmins is best known for her obsessive, minutely detailed images of ocean waves and the star-filled night sky, which she has worked on since the 1980s. After finishing art college in Indiana in the early 1960s, Celmins decided against migrating to the East Coast and instead enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles. There, she rejected the gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists to make painstaking paintings of things in her studio. In 2018, a retrospective of her works opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Prix Maison Ruinart 2023
Image: Constance Nouvel, Mirées (élusive), 2023. © Courtesy of Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc/Adagp, Paris 2023.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Constance Nouvel
Prix Maison Ruinart
Intended to support new talents in photography, the Prix Maison Ruinart, awarded with the support of the Picto Foundation, is awarded this year to Constance Nouvel. This summer, she benefited from a residency in Champagne, where the Mirées series was born, a reference to the final stage of checking the bottles and their contents, the series explores places and objects through clues and symbols. The photographer offers a distanced and unique interpretation of the lands and the ancestral know-how, as an extension of her personal work. The series will be exhibited during the next edition of Paris Photo in the Curiosa sector at the Grand Palais Éphémère, from November 9 to 12, 2023.
Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize
Image: Carlos Martiel, Monumento I, 2021. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk.
ART
Carlos Martiel
Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize
The inaugural Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize has been awarded to New York–based, Havana-born artist Carlos Martiel, known for his intensive, durational performances that address racism and various systems of oppression and violence. In January 2021, Martiel staged one such performance, Monumento I, at El Museo del Barrio as part of the museum’s recurring La Trienal exhibition. "I stand naked on top of a pedestal in the center of the space," he said of the work, "with my body covered in blood drawn from migrant, Latinx, African American, feminized, Native American, Muslim, Jewish, Queer, and Transexual bodies considered as ‘minority’ or marginalized groups in the United States by Eurocentric supremacist discourses."
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Visa pour l’Image 2023
Image: Ebrahim Noroozi / Associated Press - Le pays le plus triste au monde et le pire pays pour les femmes. Three Afghan internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home, in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. © Ebrahim Noroozi / AP
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ebrahim Noroozi
Visa d’or Magazine
Ebrahim Noroozi, turned his lens towards Afghanistan, a country he describes as "the saddest in the world and the most hostile to women." His year-long endeavor, honored with the Visa d’or Magazine award, sheds light on the suffering of a population left to the mercy of the Taliban following their return to power in August 2021. In stores, the faces of mannequins are covered with garbage bags; child labor is surging; half of the population grapples with acute hunger; women have faded into near-invisibility, barred from pursuing higher education. Girls secretly attend underground classes, while the streets of Kabul and the surrounding mountains are plagued by methamphetamine and opium addiction.
London Design Festival 2023
Image: Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan, by Zaha Hadid Architects, structural design by Hanif Kara's practice AKT II. Courtesy of the London Design Festival
DESIGN
Hanif Kara OBE
London Design Medal
The London Design Medal has been awarded to engineer Hanif Kara for his ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative form. Originally from Uganda, Kara co-founded London engineering firm AKT II in 1996. Through his work, he has consistently pushed innovative material uses and sustainable construction practices. His complex analysis of design allows him to constantly push the possibilities of architectural form while addressing the many challenges the built environment faces today. In 2022, Kara was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to architecture, engineering and education.
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Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2023
Image: Morgane Baroghel-Crucq, Bruler la pluie, 2023. Hand woven artwork.
Silk, steel, natural Indigo dyeing. 250x180 cm
CRAFT
Morgane Baroghel-Crucq
Grand Prix Métiers d'art
Having joined ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Morgane Baroghel-Crucq devotes herself to textile design with a specialty in weaving. Her creative process is inspired by natural landscapes which take shape in gentle undulations of varied materials. Her collections incorporate a complex weaving technique. Starting from a usual base, she integrates original materials such as brass or mother-of-pearl into the weaving. According to her, everything can be woven and transformed, which represents almost infinite and exhilarating possibilities in the creation of her works.
Image: Julie Richoz, Tapis, Hay, 2020.
DESIGN
Julie Richoz
Grand Prix Design
Creating her studio after graduating from ECAL in 2012, Julie Richoz won the Grand Prix du jury the same year at the Design Parade at Villa Noailles. It is by developing unique pieces or in reduced series that she launches into design. However, in line with the intention of Inga Sempé, the president of the Jury, to want to promote mass creation, Julie offers industrial but daring objects. Whether it is a frame for hanging photographs designed for Alessi, a small patterned rug for Hay or a collection of small tables for Mattiazzi... All of them bring a real dialogue between her inspirations and her processes, allowing an original design.
Image: "Ambient Experiments by Google ATAP", Jacquard team in collaboration with Clara Daguin, 2021. © Louise Desnos
FASHION
Clara Daguin
Grand Prix Mode
Having spent her childhood in Silicon Valley in California, Clara Daguin has always been in contact with high technologies. Her father, himself an electronics engineer, wrote the code for a piece that she exhibited at Première Vision in 2018. Clara offers a mix between Haute Couture and High Technology through the concept of augmented fashion. One of her pieces reacts to sound, sparkling to the rhythm of the vibrations while another sparkles according to the movement of its wearer. Not wishing to confine herself to one area, she already offers wall pieces intended for interior architecture.
