LOUIS ROEDERER
DISCOVERY AWARD 2020

In this exceptional year, the endowment of €15,000 of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020 is being divided between the ten winning projects in solidarity.

Two winners tied for the first place have won the Louis Roederer Discovery Award Jury Prize, consisting of an acquisition.

POULOMI BASU for Centralia, presented by New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom & Autograph, London, United Kingdom.

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER GBRÉ for Emergence, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2013 — 2020 presented by the gallery Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast / Dakar, Senegal / Paris, France.

JURY
DAMARICE AMAO / Pompidou Center
QUENTIN BAJAC / Jeu de Paume
EMILIE VILLEZ / Kadist
CHRISTOPH WIESNER / Rencontres d'Arles
MARIE-ANN YEMSI / freelance exhibition curator

With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation and Polka.

Poulomi Basu

ARTIST PRESENTED BY
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom
& AUTOGRAPH, London, United Kingdom

CENTRALIA
A focus on war crimes hidden deep in the central Indian forests where indigenous tribes are in conflict with the government.

Philippe Braquenier

Artist presented by
The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

EARTH NOT A GLOBE
The artist beats conspiracy theories at their own game by creating images stripped of context that make one doubt the earth’s rotation and the existence of gravity.

Stephen Dock

Artist presented by
Delpire & Co, Paris, France

Our day will come
Decades of conflict and protest have shaped the identities of the Northern Irish. A pervasive, underlying violence haunts the corridors, people and places. What hope is there for peace?

Elsa & Johanna

Artists presented by
Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, France / Brussels, Belgium

Find the truth
Elsa and Johanna have made a habit of climbing into other people’s skins. The fictions that they stage were inhabited by the characters they interpret.

François-Xavier Gbré

Artist presented by
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast / Dakar, Senegal / Paris, France

EMERGENCE, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST, 2013 — 2020
The French-Ivorian photographer documents urban and social upheaval in Côte d’Ivoire.

Dor Guez

Artist presented by
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel / Brussels, Belgium

LILIES OF THE FIELD
Mapping connections between historical archives, photography, and performance, Guez’s latest photographic series mines the rich historical and mythological dimensions of Jerusalem.

Amélie Labourdette

Artist presented by
Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France

KÓSMOS - Plurality of Worlds Like an Aby Warburgian Library [2017-2019]
Labourdette looks at the primordial strangeness of our terrestrial environment and the relationship of humans to the biosphere and cosmos.

Alice Miceli

Artist presented by
Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil / New York, United States

88 from 14,000
88 from 14,000 deals with the remediation of genocidal images. It is a 56-minute video projection based on mug-shot photographs of 88 out of 14,000 people killed at the S21 Prison during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Davide Monteleone

Artist presented by
Heillandi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland

SINOMOCENE 2014 — 2020
A visual investigation of one of the century’s most important projects: Chinese expansion in the world though its Belt and Road Initiative.

Deanna Pizzitelli

Artist presented by
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Koža, Women & Other Stories
Koža, Women & Other Stories is a set of interwoven narratives that explore connection, uncertainty and desire. In Slovak, koža means skin.

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