The visual artist, whose practice feeds on the history of militant and alternative cultures, presents a project on the last day of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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While the FIAC, Thursday, October 21, peak of the contemporary art season in Paris, Lili Reynaud-Dewar has been awarded the 21 e Marcel-Duchamp prices Monday 18 October in the evening on the occasion of a ceremony at the Pompidou Center in Paris. The 46-year-old artist succeeds Kapwani Kiwanga as a winner of the most prestigious French prize rewarding a confirmed artist, whether he is French or evolving on the French scene.
The list of four artists named from 2021 had been communicated on January 7th: It was Julian Charrière, Isabelle Cornaro, from Julien Crezet and Lili Reynaud-Dewar. As every year, the price is accompanied by a collective exhibition in four spaces at the Pompidou Center, which opened on October 6 for three months. If the price rewards the work of a career already committed, the choice of the work deployed by each of the artists in the running remains decisive at the time of the proceedings of the jury, as the provision of the rapporteur of each of the artists.
This year, the Jury, International, consisted of Xavier Rey, the new director of the National Museum of Modern Art – Center Pompidou, Claude Bonnin, Collector and New President of the ADIAIA (Association for the International Dissemination of French Art, Price Creator), Leon Amitai, Collector and Contractor in Colombia, Shalva Breus, Collector and Creator of the Breus Foundation and the Kandinsky Prize in Russia, Emma Lavigne, New Director General of the Pinault Collection , in Paris, from Yan Shiji, founder and director of the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, and Akemi Shiraha, representative of the Marcel Duchamp Association. Upstream, the four artists had been appointed by the ADIAF selection committee.
Tempo offsets, actors and languages
Plastic artist installed in Grenoble, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, whose work takes mainly the form of performances, sculptures, videos and facilities, feeds in his practice of the history of militant and alternative crops. In particular, she was able to summon through figures like Josephine Baker, Guillaume Dustan, Jean Genet, Sun Ra or Cosey Fanni Tutti. It presents, within the framework of the Award Duchamp, a video installation in four screens entitled “Rome, 1 ER and 2 November 1975″. This project, launched when it was a resident at Villa Medici, Rome, in 2019-2020, returned to the last day of the filmmaker and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, his last interview with his assassination – which goes back to the year of birth of the artist.
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