Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023
Image: Tarik Kiswanson, exhibition view Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Wait, 2023. Resin, fiberglass, paint, stainless steel, 270x222x100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and carlier l gebauer, Berlin/Madrid © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost
ART
Tarik Kiswanson
Prix Marcel Duchamp
The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023 has been awarded to Tarik Kiswanson. Born in 1986 in Halmstad (Sweden), the artist whose family is originally from Palestine draws inspiration from several cultures. After studying in London, he lives and works in Paris and Amman (Jordan). He is represented by the gallery carlier | gebauer (Berlin) and the Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg, Beirut). His project for the Prix Marcel Duchamp deals with the question of exile and the construction of identity, combining the ovoid shapes of the cocoons from the Nest series, pieces of furniture, the video The Fall or even the voice of his mother telling her arrival in Scandinavia. His practice explores subjects linked to memory and heritage, temporality and belonging, but also more broadly to transformation and metamorphosis. The notions of uprooting, regeneration and renewal are at the heart of his work.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
Image: Mæ Architects, John Morden Centre, London, United Kingdom, 2021. © Jim Stephenson
ARCHITECTURE
John Morden Centre by Mæ
RIBA Stirling Prize
The John Morden Centre by Mæ has been named winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, awarded to the UK's best new building. An inspiring example of architecture enabling elderly living without isolation, the John Morden Centre has been designed to encourage connection and movement among residents, supporting healthier and longer lives. This 300-year-old residential and nursing facility has been given a new lease of life with treatment rooms, a hair salon, nail bar, events space and wellbeing facilities in a beautiful setting in Blackheath, London.
Bourse Révélations Emerige 2023
Image: Johanna Mirabel, Living Room n°14, 2022, oil on canvas, 205x220 cm.
ART
Johanna Mirabel
Bourse Révélations Emerige
Johanna Mirabel has been awarded the Bourse Révélations Emerige 2023. Johanna Mirabel's hybrid spaces play on the continuity between interior and exterior, questioning the relationship between the intimate and the universal but also her Caribbean heritage, as indicated by her ocher-red palette, inspired by the soil of Guyana. The artist, who will continue to be exhibited among the finalists until November 5 at 190, rue Lecourbe (Paris 15), will benefit from the support of the partner gallery Nathalie Obadia, the provision of a workshop for a year at La Ruche and a grant for her personal exhibition at the gallery in 2024.
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Prix FLUXUS-CPGA
Image: Josèfa Ntjam, installation stand of NıCOLETTı gallery at Frieze London 2023.
© Courtesy of the artist and NıCOLETTı gallery/Adagp, Paris 2023.
ART
Josèfa Ntjam
Prix FLUXUS-CPGA
Josèfa Ntjam and her gallery NıCOLETTı are the winners of the first Prix FLUXUS-CPGA. "The jury unanimously celebrated the multidisciplinarity and fluidity of Josèfa Ntjam's work in its various practices: poetry, sound, film, photomontage, sculpture, performance... At the NıCOLETTı gallery stand dedicated to Josèfa, visitors are immersed in a total work of art, with many open layers of interpretation. The jury also wanted to emphasize that Josèfa belongs to a fantastic new generation of French artists who are revisiting history in a multidisciplinary way. Finally, the jury was keen to salute the commitment of NıCOLETTı, a young London gallery run by two Frenchmen, Camille Houzé and Oswaldo Nicoletti, to promoting Josèfa's work, which is already very present in France and currently being developed in the UK."
Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires – Hyères
Image: Igor Dieryck, "Yessir" collection.
FASHION
Igor Dieryck
Grand Prix du jury Première Vision
Prix le19M Métiers d’Arts
Prix du public - ville d’Hyères
Belgian designer Igor Dieryck won the Grand Prix du jury Première Vision as well as the Prix le19M Métiers d’Arts and the Prix du public - ville d’Hyères, wowing the jury headed by Charles de Vilmorin with chiseled designs inspired by hotel staff uniforms. Based in Paris, the 2022 graduate of Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts hailing from the south of Belgium is working as a junior designer in menswear at Hermès. Titled "Yessir" his unisex collection was inspired by his student job as a receptionist in a hotel, exploring the interactions between people from all walks of life and questioning "the place of hotel staff within their establishment." His work was "a total crush" for the jury, said de Vilmorin lauding "a collection [that was] hyper creative, poetic but also super real and desirable that could stretch into multiple seasons in the future."
Image: Gabrielle Huguenot
ACCESSORIES
Gabrielle Huguenot
Grand Prix du jury Accessoires
Swiss designer Gabrielle Huguenot won the Grand Prix du jury Accessoires for designs she described as "impetuous and vengeful" that ranged from unwearable shoes that had spikes inside and outside, to spiny jewelry and bags that looked halfway between practical and potentially lethal. "Apart from the work, there’s a world around her. You could see that she knows already who she is and is confident in that," accessories jury president Alan Crocetti said. While her work was intricate and close to art pieces, the jury could see it translating into a commercially viable reality. She embodied the advice of "keep doing whatever crazy things are in your head but understand that people should be able to have it as accessories — it’s a balance," that he’d give for anyone looking to establish a brand.
Image: Thaddé Comar, How was your dream?
PHOTOGRAPHY
Thaddé Comar
Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L
In photography, Paris and Lausanne, Switzerland based Thaddé Comar won the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L with his documentary photographic project How was your dream? realized during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, exploring in particular the devices used by demonstrators attempting to mitigate increasingly sophisticated methods of control.
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2023 Art & Environment Prize
Image: Djabril Boukhenaïssi, La Phalène, 2023, oil painting and pastel, 60x50 cm.
© Djabril Boukhenaïssi/Galerie Sator
ART
Djabril Boukhenaïssi
Art & Environment Prize
Guerlain and Korean artist Lee Ufan awarded their inaugural Art & Environment Prize to the French artist Djabril Boukhenaïssi at Paris + par Art Basel fair. Boukhenaïssi is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. "His work is essentially nourished by literature and music, and revolves around the notions of disappearance and fragility," the award organisers say. The artist will receive a solo exhibition next summer at Lee Ufan Arles, the permanent exhibition centre for the South Korean artist’s works in the south of France.
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FRAME Awards 2023
Image: Various Associates, (SO)What Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 2021.
Photo: URVIRSION CO. / Zheng Fang, Tang Cao
DESIGN
Various Associates
Designer of the Year
Various Associates is FRAME’s 2023 Designer of the Year winner. Various Associates is a multidisciplinary studio dedicated to experimental, social and innovative design and research in fields of architecture, interior and products. The studio excels at applying pure architectural structural languages to space, draws on local cultural context, and explores ever-lasting aesthetics, inclusiveness and flexibility for design projects, with the hope to make every work irreplaceable, remarkable, valuable and sustainable.
