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Sharjah Biennial 2015 Prize Winners Announced
Artists Eric Baudelaire, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Adrián Villar Rojas, Fahrelnissa Zeid are honoured for their thought-provoking contributions to SB12.
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Artists Eric Baudelaire, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Adrián Villar Rojas, Fahrelnissa Zeid are honoured for their thought-provoking contributions to SB12.
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Byron Kim has long distilled his approach to life and art in a conceptual practice marked by studies of colour and abstraction.
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In his practice, Lee Kit works with everyday materials such as fabric or cardboard to address ordinary daily rituals and the uses we give them.
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From her earliest works, Jac Leirner has worked with found objects, ready-mades and everyday detritus.
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Working with video, photography and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.
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Rodney McMillian’s multimedia work addresses themes of economic inequity and identity in contemporary American society.
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Julie Mehretu is best known for her large-scale paintings that layer geographical schema, maps and architectural representations of the city –the compressed and densely populated urban environments of the twenty-first century as well as cities with histories of erasure.
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Mixrice has worked with a community of migrant workers in Maseok, an industrial area outside of Seoul, since 2002.
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In her practice, Asunción Molinos Gordo questions the categories that define ‘innovation’ in mainstream discourses today, exploring the different forms of dominance in intellectual enquiry from the urban to the rural.
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Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara used his work to decry the violent suppression of his homeland and promote international solidarity worldwide.
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Eduardo Navarro is interested in social organisation and alternative intelligence and has worked with groups of people in spaces he creates to examine means of communication and thinking.
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Damián Ortega’s work reveals his long engagement with architecture, informal construction and systems of communication.
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A modernist who apprenticed with Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi, studied with Fernand Léger, copiously analysed Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’ and worked at l’atelier d’art abstrait in the 1940s, Saloua Raouda Choucair developed a unique abstract practice that included sculpture, painting, industrial design and public art.
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A pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Hassan Sharif explored form, time, social action and mathematical systems throughout his career.
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The work of Taro Shinoda often explores humans’ relationship to nature, science and engineering.
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Reflecting his interest in sports and drawing, Gary Simmons’ work often refers to the intersection of pop culture, race and class.