An artist who recorded a video-diary on her iPhone has won the £25,000 Turner Prize. Charlotte Prodger’s 32-minute film, BRIDGIT/Stoneymollen Trail, includes shots of her feet resting on a chair and scenes from walks through the Scottish countryside.
Image: A still from Bridgit by Charlotte Prodger, winner of this year's £25,000 Turner Prize Credit:Charlotte Prodger/Koppe Aster
An artist who recorded a video-diary on her iPhone has won the Turner Prize.
Charlotte Prodger’s 32-minute film, BRIDGIT/Stoneymollen Trail, includes shots of her feet resting on a chair and scenes from walks through the Scottish countryside.
In a voiceover, she reflects on subjects that include coming out as gay, JD Sports and Jimi Hendrix. It is the first smartphone film to win the £25,000 prize, and the judges praised the way Prodger “explores lived experience as mediated through technologies and histories”.
A still from Bridgit by Charlotte Prodger, winner of this year's £25,000 Turner Prize Credit:Charlotte Prodger/Koppe Aster
Explaining her use of an iPhone, Prodger has said: “It becomes very material, almost sculptural, this object - my phone. You can flip it mid-shot, your fingers get in the shot, you can see the blood inside your finger if you cover the tiny lens.
“You touch and rub the screen to alter the exposure, you’re filming in a landscape and the wind is pushing the tiny microphone to its limit.”
Previous winners of the prize include Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry.
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