Paris — 18e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard — Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: September 6 → October 29, 2016

The
Fondation
d’entreprise
Ricard
presents
its
eighteenth
annual
prize
this
coming
autumn,
curated
by
Isabelle
Cornaro.
The
prize
exhibition,
featuring
works
by
eight
artists
displayed
in
the
Foundation’s
own
premises
and
the
adjoining
cinema,
highlights
not
only
the
diversity
of
artistic
practices
on
the
modern
art
scene
but
above
all
the
prevalence
of
contemporary
iconography
drawing
on
images
bearing
some
relation
to
current
affairs
or
simply
marked
by
the
information
circuit.
The
artists
also
share
a
fascination
with
the
original
context
of
the
forms
they
work
with
and
how
they
are
transformed
in
and
through
the
work
of
art.
They
can
be
said
to
share
an
interest
in
montage,
both
in
the
actual
process
of
editing
–
for
instance,
using
framing
devices
to
pin
down
bodily
movements
or
retain
only
material
essential
to
the
narrative
 — 
and
as
alterations
to
temporal
continuity,
questioning
how
narrative
segments
are
arranged
in
succession.
The
works
on
display,
whether
films,
static
visual
art,
performances,
or
installations,
are
thus
on
the
cusp
between
capturing
movement
and
pinning
it
down,
between
representation
and
incarnation.
In
this
sense,
they
meet
a
desire
to
create
visual
situations.
.

The
18th
annual
Fondation
d’Entreprise
Ricard
Award
Ceremony

The
Fondation
d’entreprise
Ricard
Prize
will
be
awarded
on
October
21,
2016.
The
jury
members
are
art
collectors,
patrons
of
major
contemporary
art
museums,
and
the
curators
of
previous
Fondation
d’Entreprise
Ricard
Prize
exhibitions.
The
prize
consists
of
the
purchase
of
a
work
by
the
winning
artist,
which
is
then
donated
to
the
Pompidou
Centre
where
it
is
put
on
show
in
the
permanent
collection.
The
Fondation
d’entreprise
Ricard
also
finances
a
personal
project
involving
foreign
travel
for
the
winning
artist.

The artists

Anne Imhof (born in 1978) is a German artist who divides her time between Paris and Frankfurt. She is a graduate of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Anne Imhof works on performance in a broad field with a particular perspective that takes account of how the practice is documented and transmitted as part of her broader consideration of the relationship between audience, event, and documentation. The result is an approach that lends performance a range of forms of visibility in time and space, such as drawing, installation, and video. She is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin.

Clarisse Hahn was born in 1973 in Paris, where she now lives and works. She completed a master’s degree in Art History at the Sorbonne before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her films, photographs, and video installations share a common thread of research into communities, codes of behaviour, and the social role of the body. She is represented by the Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris.

Clément Cogitore (born in 1983 in Colmar) divides his time between Paris and Strasbourg. He studied at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg and the Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, where he developed an artistic practice that is part cinema, part contemporary art. His work, combining films, videos, installations, and photographs, explores how men cohabit with their images. Recurring themes in his work are rituals, collective memory, figuring the sacred, and a certain idea of the permeability of worlds. He is represented by Eva Hober, in Paris and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.

Julien Crépieux was born in Normandy in 1979 and lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. Julien Crépieux’s work in the form of film, installation, and collage offers the viewer highly original appropriations of images, films, texts, and music, hijacking their format to create works suffused with their own formal and poetic dimension. He is represented by the gallery Jérôme Poggi in Paris.

Louise Sartor (born in 1988) lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2012 and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris in 2015.

Marie Voignier was born in Ris-Orangis in 1974 and lives and works in Paris. She worked in photography before graduating from the École des Beaux-arts in Lyon in 2004, since when the majority of her work has been in video. Her first feature-length film L’hypothèse du Mokélé-Mbembé was released in 2012. Her work is shown at both film festivals and arts venues. She is represented by the gallery Marcelle Alix in Paris.

Mélanie Matranga (born in Marseilles in 1985) lives in Paris, where she studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA). Mélanie Matranga’s drawings, sculptures and videos combine signs gesturing to interiority and elements associated with social attitudes and habits. Together they compose sites where singularity appears to dissolve into commonality and where intimacy is stripped and laid bare. She is represented by the gallery Karma International in Zurich.

Will Benedict was born in 1978 in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (2004) and the Frankfurt Städelschule (2006). Will Benedict’s oeuvre consists of juxtaposing reality and images, two parallel worlds that, paradoxically, often come into contact, nourished by broader considerations on the possibility — or impossibility? — of mediate, mediated, and media images. He is represented by the galleries Balice Hertling in Paris, Bortolami in New York, and Dépendance in Brussels.