Prix AWARE 2022
Image: Laura Lamiel, 'Vous les entendez...', 2015.
Various elements: enameled steel chair and tables, spy mirror, metal, enameled steel, wood table, wood, glass, cooper, leather, paper, lamps. 2x (190 x 200 x 160 cm), unique.
Exhibition view 'Biennale de Lyon', 2015, photo: Blaise Adilon. Collection MAC Lyon.
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Laura Lamiel
Prix d'honneur
Laura Lamiel began working with enamelled steel modules in 1985. Her interest lies in the possibilities offered by small-volume white bricks, which she piles up or stands against walls. In the 90s, she combined these bricks with different materials and shapes, such as rolls of carpet, synthetic furs, used gloves, and ribbons. While industrially manufactured, these everyday objects stand out from their original inherent seriality in that they reflect life stories. The artist then moved on from soft, malleable objects to more rigid and fixed elements, arranging them into installations combining public space implements with geometrically shaped artistic objects.
Image: Myriam Mihindou, Johnnie Walker 1/3, from the series Sculpture de chair,
1999-2000, cibachrome, 88 x 62 cm.
Courtesy Myriam Mihindou & Galerie Maïa Muller, © ADAGP, Paris.
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Myriam Mihindou
Prix Nouveau Regard
French-Gabonese artist, Myriam Mihindou’s work knows no boundaries, whether literal or figurative. She shrugs off the question of belonging to a specific culture or artistic medium by playing with porosities and the concept of "Relation" as defined by Édouard Glissant. Performance art, understood as a practice in which the body is both a tool and the display for a thought, becomes the underlying theme of a cathartic artistic practice. Her work finds inspiration in her travels and the people she meets. She is a true exote who uses travel and the experimentation with specific areas and contexts to carry out her physical and memorial explorations.
Résidence Empreintes 2022
Image: Anahita Norouzi, Other Landscapes, 2020.
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Anahita Norouzi
Résidence Empreintes
Iranian-Canadian artist Anahita Norouzi is the laureate of the 2022 Résidence Empreintes founded by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. This eight-week artist residency opens the door to a visual artist from one of Montreal’s cultural communities to carry out a research-creation project by bringing a unique and original perspective to one of the Museum’s collections. In her practice, Anahita Norouzi explores the notions of displacement, memory and identity from a psycho-historical point of view, which is informed by frequent travels between Canada and Iran.
About the Résidence Empreintes
TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Fellowship 2022
Image: Ursula Johnson, Moose Fence, 2017, lumber, fencing, ungulate gate, programmed lighting, and (re)al-location, 2017, repeat pattern print on adhesive vinyl.
Originally commissioned by Partners in Art for LandMarks2017. Installation view at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto as part of the 2017 Sobey Art Award exhibition. Photo: National Gallery of Canada.
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TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Fellowship
TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Fellowship 2022 is conceived as a collaborative effort to share relations with the Ocean in different parts of the planet and to recognize their differences and common grounds. It aims to engage with Indigenous perspectives upon what is and what could be the Ocean and how bodies of water should be treated from an Indigenous perspective. The fellows are: Matti Aikio, Liryc Dela Cruz, Ursula Johnson, Fernanda Olivares Molina and Aqui Thami.
About the TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Fellowship
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Art Photography Awards 2022
Image: Not Lockdown in Tokyo City © Keigo Nakamura
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Keigo Nakamura
1st Place Single Image
Keigo Nakamura was born and lives in Tokyo, he is an amateur photographer who started taking pictures in college. He is the overall single image winner for his photograph Not Lockdown in Tokyo Citydepicting in his words "an old gentleman walking in the morning mist who understands that with social distance and basic hygiene, we don’t have to be afraid to go out".
Image: Meet Up © Chukwudi Onwumere, from the series Road Runners.
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Chukwudi Onwumere
1st Place Series
Chukwudi Onwumere grew up in Nigeria, his career as a photographer started in 2014 and his interest in the medium grew while documenting the city of Lagos. His series Road Runners focuses on the daily routines of street hawkers. Street hawking is a common source of livelihood for many youths who are determined to work hard to earn a living despite their circumstances. Road Runners is about spatial interrogation of informal trade in an informal space and public space appropriation. Chukwudi Onwumere painted them in a different light by using colors and shadows to represent desire and hope for the future.
About the LensCulture Art Photography Awards
Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship 2022
Image: James Allister Sprang, Fragment Scapes, Cyanotypes, 2019.
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Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the recipients of the 2022 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, an initiative that supports artists who are using new and emerging technologies — such as artificial intelligence, digital media, augmented and virtual reality, digital fabrication, immersive installation, software and coding — in thoughtful, creative or poetic ways to expand the field. The five 2022 fellows are: Complex Movements (Detroit, MI), James Allister Sprang (Philadelphia, PA), Mary Maggic (Los Angeles, CA), Mother Cyborg (Detroit, MI) and Ryan Kuo (Brooklyn, NY).
