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"Mohlokomedi wa Tora", 2018, Scene 4
© Lebohang Kganye | | | | | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 | | | | | | | 13 June – 22 September 2024 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hrair Sarkissian
from the series "Last Seen", 2018 – 2021
© Hrair Sarkissian | | | | | | From 13 June 2024, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation shows works by the four finalists of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize: VALIE EXPORT, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian. In their projects selected for the Prize, the artists engage with urgent issues of our time, from the remnants of war and conflict, to experiences of diasporic communities and issues of contested land, heritage, equality and gender.
VALIE EXPORT uses photography as a tool for her radical performances and for critically questioning the role of women in society and art. In her works, she points out entrenched patriarchal structures in mass media image culture and explores the relationship between body and gaze, performance and image, subject and environment. Through fusing photography and Warli painting, photographer Gauri Gill and painter Rajesh Vangad collaboratively reinvent the practice of painted photography. Gauri Gill’s photographs of the ever-changing landscape of Ganjad, Dahanu in India are enhanced by Vangad’s artful drawings. They depict the multifaceted realities of the family and village life of the indigenous Warli people, from flood and drought to unrest and terror, spirits and myths.
Lebohang Kganye explores the complex history of South Africa before, during and after apartheid and colonialism. In her vast, experimental installations she combines silhouettes and life-sized cut-out figures crafted from images found in her family’s private photo albums with text elements. She draws on stories from her family and combines them with excerpts from South African literature. In this way she succeeds in penetrating the complexity of the South African experience.
Hrair Sarkissian’s conceptual photography focuses on deeply personal narratives that, at the same time, reflect the complexity of larger historical and social issues. For his series "Last Seen", the artist travelled to Argentina, Brazil, Kosovo or Lebanon to capture the place where a missing person was last by their loved ones. The silent images of domestic or public places are visual testimonies that archive the memory of the missing and visualise individual fates within global conflicts. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize has become renowned as one of the most important international awards for photographers, spotlighting outstanding and innovative works that critically reflect society. | | | | | | | | | VALIE EXPORT
from the series "Körperkonfigurationen" (Body Configurations), 1972-1976
© VALIE EXPORT | | | | | | | This year’s edition marks the 20th anniversary of Deutsche Börse’s partnership with the Photographers’ Gallery, who have jointly awarded the Prize since 2005. With the establishment of the Photography Foundation, the Prize was retitled and has been awarded by both the Photographers’ Gallery and the Foundation since 2016. Lebohang Kganye was announced as the 2024 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, on Thursday 16 May 2024. The exhibition in The Cube is curated by Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery. | | | | | | | | | Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad
Mountains and Trees, 2014
from the series "Fields of Sight", 2013-ongoing
© Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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