Prix Women In Motion 2025
Image: Nan Goldin, Stendhal Syndrome, 2024, still. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian.
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Nan Goldin
Prix Women In Motion
American artist, Nan Goldin, is the winner of the Prix Women In Motion 2025, presented by Kering and Les Rencontres d’Arles. Through her work, Nan Goldin has recast the representation of women outside patriarchal norms, but also of overlooked communities. Her intimate and raw portraits highlight issues like domestic violence, sexuality and life on the fringes of society. Her work Stendhal Syndrom, supported by Women In Motion, will be exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles this year. It takes the form of a slideshow juxtaposing images of classical, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with portraits of Nan Goldin's friends and lovers. The structure of the work is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, depicting the artist's friends and family as mythological figures such as Galatea, Orpheus and Hermaphrodite.
About the Prix Women In Motion
Meraki Artist Award
Image: Sarah Sze, Surround Sound (After Studio), 2019. Oil, acrylic, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminum, archival paper, Dibond and wood. Three parts, 103 x 130 in. Promised gift of Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté. Courtesy of the artist. © Sarah Sze
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Sarah Sze
Meraki Artist Award
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced Sarah Sze as the inaugural recipient of the Meraki Artist Award, a new award that recognizes the achievements of women visual artists. Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works that shift scale between microscopic observation and macroscopic perspective on the infinite. Her dynamic, generative body of work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video and installation while always addressing the precarious nature of materiality and grappling with matters of entropy and temporality.
Prix de l’Intime RPBB / Photo Doc 2025
Image: Bastien, REFUGES series. © Emeline Sauser
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Emeline Sauser
Prix de l’Intime RPBB / Photo Doc
Emeline Sauser is the winner of the Prix de l’Intime RPBB / Photo Doc 2025 for her documentary work REFUGES. Through her photography, Emeline Sauser explores themes such as wandering, resilience and the need for consolation, seeking to capture the fragile moment when the intimate becomes universal. REFUGES is a long-term project that explores the quest for reconstruction after an ordeal. Through a sensitive and immersive approach, Emeline Sauser documents trajectories where the refuge can be a place, a relationship or introspection. Her images aptly convey those unsettled moments when we seek to reinvent ourselves, oscillating between fragility and inner strength.
About the Prix de l’Intime RPBB / Photo Doc
Prix ICART Artistik Rezo 2025
Image: Ismaël Bazri, Dans l’eau de Nice, 2021. Silver print, mounted on a prayer rug, 50 x 75 cm, 80 x 120 cm.
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Ismaël Bazri
Prix du Jury
Ismaël Bazri received the Prix du Jury at the Prix ICART Artistik Rezo 2025. His winning work Dans l'eau de Nice is part of the Islam Goes to Hollywood series, in which Ismaël Bazri combines pop culture and family heritage. Dans l'eau de Nice superimposes photography and a prayer rug to deconstruct traditional visual codes and create new ones. Together, these two dimensions form a unique work in which representation becomes an act of protest.
Image: Maïssane Alibrahimi, Break the Sweet Sugar, 2025.
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Maïssane Alibrahimi
Prix du Public
Maïssane Alibrahimi was awarded the Prix du Public for her work Break the Sweet Sugar. Break the Sweet Sugar reflects a Moroccan tradition of breaking sugar blocks at weddings. Through this performative sculpture, Maïssane Alibrahimi conjures up the figure of the Moroccan bride. Sugar takes on a dual dimension: on the one hand, it embodies sweetness, sharing and spirituality; on the other, it becomes a tool for deconstructing the injunctions associated with femininity, as well as a reminder of colonial history and the industrialisation of this material.
About the Prix ICART Artistik Rezo
Icelandic Art Prize 2025
Image: Pétur Thomsen, Settlement, 2024. Hafnarborg. Photo: Pétur Thomsen
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Pétur Thomsen
Artist of the Year
Pétur Thomsen received the Artist of the Year award at the Icelandic Art Prize 2025 for his solo exhibition Settlement at Hafnarborg. The jury considers Settlement an exceptionally well executed exhibition, from the production to the presentation of the works, which includes a profound awareness of and concern for nature. With a deep knowledge of the photographic medium, Pétur Thomsen captures in his works an essence and vision that, through the exhibition, transform into a compelling dialogue with the viewer.
