Joana Hadjithomas And Khalil Joreige Win Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017
By Helena Halim
Installation view of JOANA HADJITHOMAS and KHALIL JOREIGE’s winning work,
Prix Marcel Duchamp was established in 2000 by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, to honor “a French artist or artist residing in France, representative of his or her generation,” according to the association's statement. The prize is named after Marcel Duchamp as a tribute to his artistic innovations.
The other nominees for this year’s award were Maja Bajevic, Charlotte Moth and Vittorio Santoro. The jury included Bernard Blistène, director of the Centre Pompidou; Gilles Fuchs, president of ADIAF; Carmen Gimenez, curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Erika Hoffmann, founder of the Sammlung Hoffmann Collection in Berlin; Mao Jihong, president of fashion label Exception de Mixmind and Fang Suo Commune bookstore in Guangzhou; curator Jérôme Sans; and Akemi Shiraha, representative for the Marcel Duchamp Association. Previous recipients include Thomas Hirschhorn, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tatiana Trouvé, Cyprien Gaillard, Latifa Echakhch, Julien Prévieux and Kader Attia.
Hadjithomas and Joreige’s Unconformities will be on view at the Centre Pompidou along with works by other finalists until January 8, 2018.
Helena Halim is an editorial intern at ArtAsiaPacific.
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