Women in Motion Prize 2022
Image: Babette Mangolte, Lucinda Childs dancing her solo "Katima" in her loft on Broadway, 1978.
Courtesy of Babette Mangolte.
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Babette Mangolte
Women in Motion Prize
Babette Mangolte has won the Women in Motion Prize for photography 2022. The prize is awarded by Les Rencontres de la Photoraphie d'Arles in partnership with Kering. Born in France in 1941 and based in New York since the 1970s, Babette Mangolte is a filmmaker, photographer, artist and author of critical essays on photography. As a director of photography, she worked with Chantal Akerman on the cult movie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). She has documented the choreography and performances of Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Joan Jonas, Robert Morris, Lucinda Childs, Marina Abramović, Steve Paxton and the 1970s theater scene in New York City.
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Prix Jean-François Prat 2022
Image: Florian Krewer, endless, 2021.
Oil on linen. 118 1/4 x 94 1/2 inches ; 300.5 x 240 cm. KRE 139.
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Florian Krewer
Prix Jean-François Prat
Florian Krewer was born in 1986 in Gerolstein (Germany), he lives and works in New York. In his practice, Florian Krewer explores the lives of young people and the various impulses that drive them, facing the tough world they are living in: love, pure energy (dance, sport, etc.) and aggressive attitudes. Eluding one-dimensional reading, the urban characters in Krewer’s paintings seem escaping from these situations by a kind of a levitating gesture and a dynamic placement of the figures on the canvas where, sometimes, some represented animals suggest analogy between humans and their primary condition.
Image: Marine Wallon, Etosha, 2021.
Oil on canvas. 40 x 55 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and of the Galerie Catherine Issert (St Paul de Vence).
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Marine Wallon
Prix Jean-François Prat
Marine Wallon was born in 1985, she lives and works in Paris. Marine Wallon’s paintings do not seek so much to represent as to make present. They do not attempt to produce a plausible landscape but, on the contrary, confront us with the finished reality of the canvas, created by its edges and its surface, with the materiality of the paint. Her paintings suggest views where the immensity and the infinity of nature imposes itself on man who always seems to be on the move to an unknown goal.
About the Prix Jean-François Prat
Richard Mille Art Prize 2021
Image: Nasser Alzayani, Watering the Distant, Deserting the Near, Abu Dhabi, 2021.
© Photo: Xavier Ansart
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Nasser Alzayani
Richard Mille Art Prize
For the first edition of Louvre Abu Dhabi's Art Here exhibition, UAE-based artists were invited to explore the theme of ‘Memory, Time and Territory’. Bahraini-American artist Nasser Alzayani was awarded the Richard Mille Art Prize for his proposal Watering the distant, deserting the near, a set of sand tablet fragments with eroded Arabic script, evoking not only the fading of memory, but also the desertification of the once-legendary Ain Adhari spring of Bahrain. The text – a script from a Bahraini poem – wears down and the tablets break into pieces. The fundamental yet fragile connection between memory and territory is broken but not lost.
About the Richard Mille Art Prize
Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill
Académie des beaux-arts 2022
Image: Julien-Arnaud Corongiu, C'est comme si je n'existais plus 2 (diptyque), 2021.
Charcoal on paper. 76 x 56 cm.
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Julien-Arnaud Corongiu
Premier Prix
Julien-Arnaud Corongiu's work is essentially centered around painting and drawing in which he approaches and questions the themes of identity, exclusion, determinism and enslavement. He mainly works in series using different mediums, from oil painting and ink to watercolor and charcoal. His series of portraits C'est comme si je n'existais plusaddresses the question of the loss of identity. The notion is present by the increasingly dark and erased gradations of the people. The uniform makes us forget the individual and evokes enslavement and renunciation around the figure of the soldier.
Image: Solène Rigou, Boulevard d’Olonne, 2021.
Graphite on mounted paper. 24 x 33,5 cm. © ADAGP, Paris, 2022
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Solène Rigou
Deuxième Prix
Solène Rigou approaches drawing through various techniques and media including colored pencil on wood and graphite on paper. In her work, she stages memory by bringing together objects that she collects. Like a pictorial autobiographical diary, she captures moments of intimate life in order to celebrate them. The drawings in her series were made from photos found in her grandmother's house. She cropped the images to retain only one detail: the hands. Without faces and without decor, only anonymous presences remain.
Image: Violaine Desportes, Peut-être.
Ballpoint pen on laminate. 24 x 18 cm.
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Violaine Desportes
Troisième Prix
For her series Peut-être Violaine Desportes designed her drawings from photographs taken in the school where she teaches. The work of composing the image borrows from cinematographic framing and the surveillance camera but, in this case, it is defeated: what is happening is not entirely visible. In this thriller atmosphere, the viewer acts as an investigator developing hypotheses. The only answer is "maybe". The teenagers play on their insolence by addressing these words to the spectator in search of meaning.
About the Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill Académie des beaux-arts
Pernod Ricard Arts Mentorship
Image: Pernod Ricard Arts Mentorship 2022, Sandra Rocha and Perrine Géliot. © Sandra Rocha
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Sandra Rocha & Perrine Géliot
Pernod Ricard Arts Mentorship
Sandra Rocha & Perrine Géliot form the first duo of the new artistic mentoring program of the Pernod Ricard Group. Selected by an artistic committee, a major figure in contemporary photography serves as a mentor and selects an artist to develop, hand-in-hand, a project of international scope. Sandra Rocha (mentor) and Perrine Géliot (mentee) went to Chiapas, Mexico. Both artists draw on themes of travel, landscape, and rituals. The duo constructed a poetic narrative that cuts through time.
