Farah Al Qasimi, S and A on the Phone, from the series « Imitation of Life » / Courtesy of The Third Line and Helena Anrather
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Vine, from the series « Georgian Ornament », 2020-2021 / Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz
Mariana Hahn, view of the installation Eros and Thanatos Made a Child, photograph by Chroma
Ilanit Illouz, Wadi, from the series « Les Dolines », 2016-2021
Jonas Kamm, from the series « The Inhabitants », 2020
Tarrah Krajnak, Self-Portrait as Weston/as Bertha Wardell, 1927/2020, from the series « Master Rituals: Weston’s Nudes », 2020
Massao Mascaro, from the series « Sub Sole », 2017-2021
Zora J Murff, Intersection, from the series « At No Point In Between », 2019 / Courtesy Webber Gallery
Aykan Safoglu, from the film Hundstern steigt ab, 2020 / Courtesy The Pill
Andrzej Steinbach, from the series « Der Apparat », 2019 / Courtesy Galerie Conradi
Marie Tomanova, In Dad’s Sweater (All That Is Left), from the series « It Was Once My Universe », 2018-2019
This year, the artists shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award will be exhibited in a group show where a wide range of works will resonate with each other.
The 11 projects were selected from numerous submissions, largely from Europe. Reflecting a desire to question and rethink techniques and genres, they attest to a keen interest in the body and its place in the world as well as in the materiality of photography.
These artists take photographs, make videos, create installations, explore archives and experiment with digital tools. They tell stories—personal, collective or intergenerational, real or fictionalized; turn the medium’s processes, canons and gestures upside-down; and develop them in physical or virtual space. Some express their commitment and perspectives on their environment in abstraction or novel forms, others through narratives that comment on a humanity both tense and mobile.
