2023-10-16 20:20:47
The 23rd edition of the prize, which defends the contemporary French scene, has chosen an artist whose work has a clear geopolitical underpinning, echoing the troubles of our century. Difficult choice because the other three finalists – Bouchra Khalili, Bertille Bak and Massinissa Selmani – shared this characteristic.
We should not necessarily see a message but salute the courage of the jury (composed of Xavier Rey, director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Claude Bonnin, president of ADIAF, Akemi Shiraha, representative of the Marcel Duchamp Association, Jimena Blazquez Abascal, director of the Marcel Duchamp Association, Josée Gensollen, founder of the Collection Gensollen La Fabrique, Béatrice Salmon, director of the CNAP, and Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum), who awarded the prize avoiding the self-censorship. The winner, Tarik Kiswanson, is in fact of Palestinian origin and, in the current situation, one might have thought that it would be more convenient to cast his vote on a nationality less exposed to the heat of the news. Moreover, the four candidates, with very varied origins, all addressed in one way or another this question of displacement, of exile, of an elsewhere that is not always welcoming – a decidedly inexhaustible theme. The prize should have been presented at the Center Pompidou but, due to the strike (see brief in this issue), had to be moved to Artcurial. With his usual humor, Laurent Le Bon, president of the Center, recalled that the next edition would be held in Beaubourg “unless the strike lasts one year”. A true collective construction, from the participation of members of the ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French Art) through the rapporteurs, to the curator Angela Lampe of the Center Pompidou, the prize will know the year…
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