Who Was Nominated for Britain’s £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize 2023?
Top row from left to right: Rushdi Anwar, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and Mounira Al Solh, Carolina Caycedo. Bottom row from left to right: Taloi Havini, Alia Farid, and Nguyễn Trinh Thi. Courtesy Artes Mundi.
Cardiff-based arts organisation Artes Mundi today announced seven nominees for the tenth edition of the Artes Mundi Prize.
They are: Rushdi Anwar (Kurdistan), Carolina Caycedo (UK), Alia Farid (Kuwait), Naomi Rincón Gallardo (USA), Taloi Havini (Papua New Guinea), Nguyễn Trinh Thi (Vietnam), and Mounira Al Solh (Lebanon).
Work by each artist will feature in the Artes Mundi biennial exhibition from October 2023 to March 2024. For the first time, the biennial will be presented at multiple venues across Wales. The venue partners are: MOSTYN, Llandudno; Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; National Museum Cardiff; and Chapter, Cardiff.
The selectors of this year’s nominees—Zoe Butt, Katya García-Antón, Wanda Nanibush, and Gabi Ngcobo—said that the exhibition will discuss issues surrounding ‘connections to land, contested territories and histories, the questioning of nationhood and its environmental impact, and how these ideas challenge preconceived notions of identity and belonging.’
In 2021, six artists shared the Artes Mundi Prize: Firelei Báez, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Meiro Koizumi, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Prabhakar Pachpute, and Carrie Mae Weems. —[O]
Main image: Top row from left to right: Rushdi Anwar, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and Mounira Al Solh, Carolina Caycedo. Bottom row from left to right: Taloi Havini, Alia Farid, and Nguyễn Trinh Thi. Courtesy Artes Mundi.
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