The 2nd edition of the Art & Environment prize this year rewards the Franco-Canadian artist Caroline Corbasson. The award ceremony was held this Friday, October 18, 2024 at Maison Guerlain on the Champs-Élysées, in Paris. This award is a joint initiative of perfumer Guerlain and Lee Ufan Arles.
The winner will benefit from a six to eight week residency at Lee Ufan Arles, followed by an exhibition in one of the foundation’s spaces, in the summer of 2025. This prize will also allow her to have opportunities to collaborations with Guerlain.
Caroline Corbasson’s work is marked by a fascination with tornadoes, which punctuated her Texan childhood, and which she considers as a force ” devastating » and yet « bearer of life “. Through paintings, poems and drawings, the artist seeks to link the imagery of the climate and that of the wind to create, in his words, a “ poetics of the movement of the masses’air, breath, always loaded with symbols “. During her residency, she wishes to draw inspiration from the “ landscape experience’Arles beaten by the winds ».
552 applications were submitted this year for this prize, and 5 finalists were designated on October 11. The jury was chaired by the artist Lee Ufan and composed of Laurent Le Bon, president of the Center Pompidou, Wim Wenders, director and producer, and Djabril Boukhenaïssi, artist and first winner of the Prize. They were accompanied by three members of Maison Guerlain, Gabrielle Saint-Genis, president and CEO, Ann Caroline Prazan, director of the Art, Culture and Heritage division, and Claire Coletti, director of the Sustainable Development division, as well as two representatives from Lee Ufan Arles, Esra Joo, vice-president, and Juliette Vignon, general coordinator.
Caroline Corbasson, 2024.
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