RA Architecture Prize 2023
Image: Munster Technological University Cork, 3 Buildings. Administration, Tourism & Hospitality, Student Centre. Appointment MUT with BBMOC. College Quadrangle (circle). Photograph by Peter Cook
ARCHITECTURE
Shane de Blacam
RA Architecture Prize
The Royal Academy Architecture Prize 2023 has been awarded to Shane de Blacam. The jury was impressed by his commitment to creating communal spaces. They also highlighted his remarkable craftsmanship and the pleasure he takes in joinery and detail. De Blacam formed the architectural practice de Blacam and Meagher with John Meagher in 1976. De Blacam’s buildings are characterised by their simplicity and their celebration of local materials. Throughout his career, he has been concerned with creating spaces for people to come together, including the sensitively restored Abbeyleix Library in Laois and the elegant Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin.
About the RA Architecture Prize
Prix Jean-François Prat 2023
Image: Jem Perucchini, Tappeto, 2022. Huile sur lin, 200 x 300 cm. Courtesy Corvi-Mora gallery
ART
Jem Perucchini
Prix Jean-François Prat
Jem Perucchini has been awarded the Prix Jean-François Prat 2023. Born in 1995 in Ethiopia and adopted by an Italian family, he lives and works in Milan. Jem Perucchini proposes a contemporary painting on the mystery of what is being done, on the future seized in formation, based on Renaissance imagery. Creating an intimacy between the painted characters and the viewer, his portraits introduce the figure of the black person into Renaissance-inspired painting, without political purpose.
About the Prix Jean-François Prat
Prix pour la photographie du musée du
quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 2023
Image: Pallivaal © Jaisingh Nagaswaran
PHOTOGRAPHY
Destiny Deacon
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte
Jaisingh Nagaswaran
Prix pour la photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
The Prix pour la photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 2023 has been awarded to Destiny Deacon (Australia) for her projet Outside Looking In, through compositions featuring dolls she humorously confronts colonialism, sovereignty and racism ; Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (Mexico/Great Britain) for her project Grandma as a beekeeper, a project about an uprooted family tree and consisting of three main chapters, each dedicated to a different place ; and Jaisingh Nagaswaran (India) for his projet Pallivaal (Lizard’s Tail), a personal and introspective project where he decides to explore several stages and memory markers of his childhood and his experience.
About the Prix pour la photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Design Parade Toulon
Image: Clément Rosenberg, Chambre tapissée pour cigale en hiver. © Luc Bertrand
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Clément Rosenberg
Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels
The Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels has been awarded to Clément Rosenberg for his project Chambre tapissée pour cigale en hiver. Clément Rosenberg chooses the cicada as a Mediterranean emblem and associates it with an imaginary coat of arms bringing together the territories of the Mediterranean in symbolic colors, indigo, terracotta, yellow..., which he declines in tapestries, sheets and hangings to recreate a medieval bedroom. The room is light and delicate, in a sensitive and referenced understanding of the south.
Design Parade Hyères
Image: Yassine Ben Abdallah, Mémoires de la plantation. © j.vandegruiter
DESIGN
Yassine Ben Abdallah
Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères
Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères
Yassine Ben Abdallah has been awarded the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères and the Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères for his project Mémoires de la plantation. Questionning what remains of the history of sugar cane cultivation when the material objects handled by slaves and field workers have disappeared, Yassine Ben Abdallah used sugar to recreate ephemeral machetes that will also disappear over time. In three artefacts, the artist and designer questions the preservation of heritage and its social class biases in a sober and direct but evocative way.
Prix COAL 2023
Image: © Gabriella Demczuk
ART
Al-Wah’at
Prix COAL
The Prix COAL 2023 has been awarded to the Al-Wah’at collective (Palestine/United Kingdom/Spain) for its Wild Hedges project. For its 14th edition the theme "Plante!" bear witness to artists’ attention to the forms of living plants and to the many potentials of art in favor of their preservation and resilience. Taking as its starting point the colonial, ecological and symbolic histories of the prickly pear and the cochineal, with Wild Hedges the Al-Wah’at collective questions the notion of invasive species and explores practices of care and resilience with and for plants.
1 immeuble 1 œuvre
Image: Patio des Arts, Montpellier, with the work Monolithe et vibrations by Clara Langelez and Noon. © Julien Thomazo
ART
Clara Langelez and Noon
Cécile Jaillard
Studio Other Spaces, Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann
Lang/Baumann
1 immeuble 1 œuvre
1 immeuble 1 œuvre has been awarded to Clara Langelez and Noon for their fresco Monolithe et vibrations, a large mural created on the residence Patio des Arts in Montpellier ; to La Nature et les jardins by Cécile Jaillard, an artistic project participatory in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise) ; to The Seeing City by Studio Other Spaces, Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, an immersive installation in Paris ; and to Beautiful View #1 by the artist duo Lang/Baumann in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
2023 Kyoto Prize
Image: Nalini Malani, Complexity of Communication 3, 2013. Reverse painted acrylic, ink, and enamel on acrylic sheet on specially printed Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper. 30.48 x 40.64 cm.
Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. New York.
ART
Nalini Malani
Kyoto Prize
Indian artist Nalini Malani has been awarded this year’s Kyoto Prize in the arts and philosophy. Malani is among India’s first video artists, though her practice has extended to include theater, installations, paintings and drawings. According to the prize's organisers, she is being recognized for her "phantasmagorical spaces with approachable art forms" as well as her "pioneered artistic expression that brings the voices of the voiceless to more people". Malani, who came to India as a refugee during the partition of India and Pakistan, studied art in Mumbai and Paris, before returning to India, where she began to address the country’s socio-political issues in her work.
2023 Frieze London Artist Award
Image: Adham Faramawy, By earth, sea and air we came, 2021, video, 18 minutes. Courtesy of the artist
ART
Adham Faramawy
Frieze London Artist Award
Faramawy’s winning commission, And these deceitful waters, will be a video and sculptural assemblage examining the history of the Thames, its underground tributaries and the plants along its banks as a way of exploring the river as a colonial artery and a site of ecological collapse. Employing a three-person dance performance with music and spoken word, Faramawy’s work will tell the migration stories of the river and its flora, surveying how they build national identity and can construct, reinforce and dissolve borders. Adham Faramawy is an artist of Egyptian descent based in London. Their work addresses concerns of materiality, touch, the body and toxicity to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalised communities.
