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NOUS SOMMES HALLES, 2002-2003
In collaboration with Anoushkashoot
© Mohamed Bourouissa
Kamel Mennour, Paris & London and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles | | | | | | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 | | | French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, for his project, Free Trade.
Mohamed Bourouissa (b.1978) was announced as the 2020 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize via a special online presentation hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery on Monday 14 September 2020. Narrated by the actor, Juliet Stevenson, the film included a short history of the photography prize before presenting the work of each of this year’s nominees, which also includes Anton Kusters, Mark Neville and Clare Strand and then announcing the winner.
The film is available to view online here. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mohamed Bourouissa
BLIDA 2, 2008
© Mohamed Bourouissa
Kamel Mennour, Paris & London and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles | | | | | | Particularly focussed on the representation of disenfranchised people and marginalised communities, the Paris-based photographer Bourouissa was selected by the judging panel for his spectacular installation "Free Trade". First exhibited in a Monoprix supermarket in Arles as part of "Rencontres d'Arles", France, this exhibition brought together an extensive survey of projects produced in the last 15 years.
Working across photography, video, painting and sculpture, Bourouissa’s projects often examine socio-economic processes, invisible tensions between different social milieus and the related cul-tural divisions. Free Trade considers the relationship between individuals and the complex systems of markets and capital, while also reflecting on historically and socially prescribed aesthetics from art history to rap culture.
The exhibition includes one of Bourouissa’s first projects, Périphérique (2005-2008), which subverts the common stereotypes of youths living in the infamous banlieues of Paris; a project documenting the practice of cigarette smuggling at a Paris subway station; as well as a work that repurposes Polaroid photos of people caught stealing everyday items from a supermarket. In a later project Bourouissa uses augmented reality to create virtual sculptures representing the forgotten and face-less ‘army of the unemployed’.
The video "Temps Mort" (2009) depicts the daily routines of a prisoner, connected via phone to the artist, it conveys the delicate exchange between both individuals as the confrontation between life inside and outside intensifies. | | | | | | | | | Mohamed Bourouissa
La République, 2006
From the series Périphérique
© Mohamed Bourouissa
Kamel Mennour, Paris & London and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles | | | | | | "Bourouissa seems highly aware both of the expectation that his work should authentically repre-sent the banlieues, and the reality that they are bought and sold on the art market, far from the world they depict” writes Cécile Bishop in the exhibition catalogue: “Through his work he redirects the circulation of images (and money) so that his subjects become active collaborators in making – and selling – works of art."
For The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition, five projects drawn from the expansive "Free Trade" are presented on the fourth floor of the Gallery, including "Nous Sommes Halles" (2003-2005 in collabo-ration with Anoush Kashoot), "Périphérique" (2005-2008), "Temps Mort" (2009), "Shoplifters" (2014-2015) and the augmented-reality piece "Si Di Kubi" (2017).
Says Bourouissa of his work: "When I was in school I learned about the history of art but that didn’t introduce other aspects of my home culture or leave traces of the people around me, so later I decided to try to bring my home culture into the history of art. For me it’s about the idea of integra-tion – how we can integrate our own histories into that one."
The 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize jury comprised: Martin Barnes, Senior Curator, Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom; Melanie Manchot, artist and photographer, based in London, United Kingdom; Joachim Naudts, Curator and Editor at FOMU Foto Museum in Antwerp, Belgium; Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt a. M., Germany; and Brett Rogers, Director of The Photogra-phers’ Gallery as the non-voting chair. | | | | | | | | | Mohamed Bourouissa
NOUS SOMMES HALLES, 2002-2003
In collaboration with Anoushkashoot
© Mohamed Bourouissa
Kamel Mennour, Paris & London and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles | | | | | | The work of all the 2020 shortlisted artists, Mohamed Bourouissa, Anton Kusters, Mark Neville and Clare Strand, remains on display at The Photographers’ Gallery in an extended presentation, curated by Anna Dannemann, until 20 September 2020.
Highlighting the diverse and innovative nature of their individual practices, the 2020 presentations consider the shared artistic, social and political issues influencing contemporary photography more widely. Taking over the 4th and 5th floors of The Photographers’ Gallery, the exhibition structure comprises four distinct artists’ rooms, offering each shortlisted project a self-contained space for visitors to engage with the works in depth, as well as encouraging a consideration of the projects in dialogue. While the projects are notably independent they all demonstrate, through their reflective approach to the medium and in the subjects they explore, photography’s unique ability to make visible what often lies forgotten or concealed.
Now in its twenty-fourth year, the highly regarded annual prize, originated by The Photographers’ Gallery in 1996 and awarded in collaboration with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation since 2016, rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhi-bition or publication format in Europe, which is felt to have significantly contributed to the medium of photography in the last 12 months.
More information: www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org or thephotographersgallery.org.uk | | | | | | | | | Mohamed Bourouissa
La Prise, 2008
From the series Périphérique
© Mohamed Bourouissa
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