James Barnor Prize 2023
Image: Mário Macilau, Untitled, Circle of Memories series, 2020.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mário Macilau
James Barnor Prize
Photographer Mário Macilau is the winner of the second edition of the James Barnor Prize which rewards an established African photographer and offers him visibility. Mário Macilau, born in 1984 in Maputo, Mozambique, lives and works between his hometown, Lisbon and Cape Town. He began photography in 2003, taking his first pictures with his mother's cell phone, and became a professional photographer in 2007. Mário Macilau is a committed artist whose photography is sensitive and human. He is mainly interested in questions of identity, political and environmental issues, as well as social inequalities and injustices.
Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard
Image: View of the installation by Eden Tinto Collins at the exhibition of the 24th prix Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Ka Libre Ensemble.
ART
Eden Tinto Collins
Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard
Eden Tinto Collins is the winner of the Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard, which has rewarded young talent from the French artistic scene since 1999. Hypermedia poet, her practice is imbued with science fiction, mythology, sitcoms and quantum physics. Videographer, performer and musician Eden Tinto Collins creates on-screen visual operas, total works of art combining shots taken in a natural environment, photographs taken on the Internet and digital animations. The characters in these cinematic installations, embodied by the artist as well as other performers, emerge as avatars at the frontiers of the virtual and the real.
About the Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard
2023 Oberlander Prize
Image: Nanchang Fish Tail Park, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, 2021.
Photo © Turenscape courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
ARCHITECTURE
Yu Kongjian
Oberlander Prize
Beijing-based landscape architect Yu Kongjian is the recipient of the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. Yu is the global champion of the "sponge cities" concept that addresses climate change accelerated urban flooding with large-scale nature-based infrastructure that acts as sponges soaking up and storing rainfall instead of relying exclusively on traditional concrete reinforced riverbanks, dams, pipes, drains, and other conventional engineering solutions. Since being adopted as national policy in 2013, more than 70 cities in China have implemented the concept with the goal that by 2030 80% of the cities would be able to absorb 70% of their rainfall.
RIBA Reinvention Award 2023
Image: van Heyningen & Haward Architects (vHH), Houlton School, Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, 2021.
ARCHITECTURE
Houlton School by vHH
RIBA Reinvention Award
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named Houlton School in Rugby, Warwickshire by van Heyningen & Haward Architects' (vHH) as the winner of its first Reinvention Award. Houlton School is a state secondary school that will form part of an emerging residential district on the site of the former Rugby Radio Station. The jury noted how careful conservation and sensitive interventions – including the restoration of degraded building fabrics and sourcing of locally produced materials – have created a dynamic learning environment for students, while skilfully retaining the building’s industrial scale and grandeur.
About the RIBA Reinvention Award
Prix photo Camera Clara 2023
Image: Laura Pannack, Grapes. © Laura Pannack
PHOTOGRAPHY
Laura Pannack
Prix photo Camera Clara
Laura Pannack is the winner of the Prix photo Camera Clara, she was distinguished for her series Youth without age and life without death, a photographic exploration of the people, places and landscapes she encountered in Romania. The series takes inspiration from a Romanian folk tale exploring the notions of eternal life and the uncertain quest for our own destiny. Like a web of nostalgia and resistance, all the signs of temporality manifest themselves in objects charged with tensions between permanence and impermanence. Time elsewhere is incessant, but here, a part of it remains. A place in its own time, where even its youth lives historically.
About the Prix photo Camera Clara
Gold Art Prize 2023
Image: Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, waves move bile, 2020, mixed media installation with programmed lights and audio. Installation view of "2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone," New Museum, New York. Image courtesy of 47 Canal, New York. Photo: Joerg Lohse
ART
Tishan Hsu
Mire Lee
Gala Porras-Kim
WangShui
Enzo Camacho and Amy Lien
Gold Art Prize
Tishan Hsu, Mire Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, WangShui, as well as the partnership of Enzo Camacho and Amy Lien are the winners of the Gold Art Prize, which awards five AAPI and Asian diaspora artists every other year. Hsu has been a multimedia artist for five decades, with a particular interest on the growing cognitive and physical impact of computers and technology. WangShui’s video, sculpture, painting and installation work is often about perception and "psychosomatic loops." Lee’s large, kinetic, fluid sculptures have been described by her as evoking body horror and vore. Camacho and Lien’s sociopolitical multimedia collaborations include figurative sculptures about the mythological monster Manananggal and framed paper works made from food waste. Porras-Kim’s sculptures, installations, and colorful, large-scale drawings of 5,000 artifacts explore how museums and other institutions assign meaning to items.
2023 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund
Image: Melitta Baumeister, Spring Summer 2024 by Michal Plata.
FASHION
Melitta Baumeister
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund
Melitta Baumeister was named the winner of the 19th CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund (CVFF). A Melitta Baumeister is easily identifiable. Marked by oversized silhouettes, innovative materials, and unusual shapes, the German-born designer is making her mark on the fashion industry through sculptural designs. After honing her craft at Parsons, where she graduated from the MFA program, she landed a spot in the VFILES New York Fashion Week show. The standout collection caught the eye of influential industry people, including Mel Ottenberg, who put one of her coats on Rihanna. Soon after, the collection landed at at Dover Street Market – and she’s been steadily building her brand since.
About the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund
Prix LE BAL / ADAGP de la Jeune Création
Image: Avant le feu, formation cascadeur, from the project provisionally entitled Fury, 2020.
© Marie Quéau / ADAGP, Paris, 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marie Quéau
Prix LE BAL / ADAGP de la Jeune Création
The Prix LE BAL / ADAGP de la Jeune Création was awarded to Marie Quéau for her project provisionally entitled Fury. "My research stems from a curiosity about a place of learning, a desire to discover what goes on behind the scenes. The Fury project takes place in a number of places (stuntman training centers, motion capture studios, horror film modeling studios, Fury Rooms), all of which have in common the need to create the believable. I'd like to capture the moments when the body escapes or, on the contrary, is caught up by the phenomenon of gravity. In the Fury Rooms (places mainly frequented by women, where people can come to break everyday objects and vent their anger or stress), the idea of contact will again be explored, with the body put to the test in its various states (sleep, weight, rage, flight and fall)." said Marie Quéau.
