French Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won France's most prestigious contemporary art prize, the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
Choisne was born in 1985 in Cherbourg and now works in Paris. She is represented by Air de Paris, Romainville (Grand Paris). She was nominated for the prize alongside Abdelkadar Banchamma artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Noémie Goudal.
'Given the fragility and experimental nature of her work, Gaëlle Choisne succeeds in mixing gravity and lightness through multiple, multidisciplinary experiments that invite us to enter into her system,' said Xavier Rey, Director of the Musée national d'art moderne and a member of the prize's jury.
'Scholarly and vernacular, her work moves through the tension it creates between the everyday and the extraordinary, awareness of history and projection into the future,' he continued.
The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 exhibition is on now through 6 January 2025 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the exhibition, Choisne presents her installation L'Ère du Verseau (The Age of Aquarius) (2024), which includes structures made of cork, large painted panels, and video projections. She describes the work as 'an island, an archipelago, a place where different realities accumulate to be reinvented and repaired'.
Main Image: Gaëlle Choisne, lauréate du prix Marcel Duchamp 2024.
© Photo Hugues Lawson-Body 2024/Centre Pompidou.