At 36, the visual artist was distinguished among the four artists of the French scene in the running for the prestigious reward for contemporary art.
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The announcement was made a little before 8 p.m. Monday October 17, from the Center Pompidou forum, by Xavier Rey, the director of the National Museum of Modern Art, in the company of Claude Bonnin, the president of the ‘Association for international broadcast of French art, initiator of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2000, and Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Center Pompidou. Mimosa Echard wins the 22
The sumptuous piece of the artist presented for the price consists of a large panoramic window, which is also an image in perpetual motion, blurred by an uninterrupted transparent flow, and through which we distinguish a patchwork of details: D ‘ Other images on screen, lights, false waves, seeds or plastic lace. The visual artist designates this installation in metamorphosis, all in contradictory, organic or synthetic flows and fluids, MI- “LACRYMAL MACHINE” MI- “WY screen”, as an “ambiguous architectural object”.
the interne jury Ational decided in the afternoon, after the presentations of the rapporteurs of each of the artists, that is Jill Gasparina, critic, independent commissioner and assistant professor at the Head-Genève (Switzerland), for Mimosa Echard, Kathryn Weir, Director of the Madre Museum, in Naples (Italy), for Iván Argote, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Lecture of conferences in philosophy at Paris-Viii Vincennes-Saint-Denis University and member this year of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination Columbia University (United States), for Giulia Andreani, and Julien Fronsacq, chief curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva (Switzerland), for Philippe Decrauzat.
Exhibition until January 2 2023
The four artists had been retained in mid-January, after a long selection process by the eleven members of the collector committee. On October 5 opened at the Center Pompidou the traditional exhibition of the four artists in the running, exhibition still visible until January 2, 2023. If the prize relates to the career of artists, the quality of the projects designed for the exhibition, price window, price, price, price, price, price, price obviously weighs in the choices of jurors, just like the demonstration of their rapporteurs.
At 36, Mimosa Echard was the youngest of the four nominees this year, and she extends the series of women winning the award, after Kapwani Kiwanga in 2020 and Lili Reynaud-dewar in 2021, while this had been, since its creation, very largely dominated by men.
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