The association Gens d’images and Picto Foundation are delighted to announce the winner of the Niépce Prize 2020: MARINA GADONNEIX.
Marina Gadonneix was born in 1977 in Paris, where she lives and works. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 2002 and is represented by the Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Paris.
Her work has been exhibited in many institutions, notably at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2006, 2012 and 2019, at the Centre photographique d’Ile de France in 2014, 2017 and as part of the trilogy “la photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction” (CPIF, Frac Normandie Rouen, Onde), at the Kunsthalle Tubingen, at the Point du Jour in Cherbourg, at the Musée de la Poste, and at the CEEAC in Strasbourg “Prismes, Goethe, réflexions contemporaines”.
Marina Gadonneix was awarded the HSBC Prize for Photography in 2006, then in 2018 the Dummy Book Award of the LUMA Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arles for the project Phénomènes.
Significant publications that mark the chronology of her series: Landscapes/Blackout (2011), The House that Burns Every Day (2012), After the Image (2015, awarded the Nadar Prize), Phénomènes (2019), all published by RVB BOOKS.
Marina Gadonneix’s application was sponsored by the iconographer, teacher and curator Laetitia Guillemin.
The deliberation process of the jury, chaired by Héloïse Conésa, curator for contemporary photography at the Department of Prints and Photography, hosted by the ADAGP, took place on Tuesday 6th October 2020. It comprised leading figures belonging to the various professions involved in the achievement, production, critiquing and publishing of photographs.
Tornades by Marina Gadonneix
From the series “Phenomena” that the artist has pursued between 2014 and 2019, Tornadoes stages and reconstructs these isolated whirlwinds that often make the news.
Produced in a scientific research facility dedicated to the analysis and reconstruction of natural phenomena, the photographs gathered in this book draw inspiration from the scientific and the spectacular to extract an evanescent cloudy form, a kind of poetic and enveloping atmosphere. The voluptuousness of the milky wind in contrast with the austerely black background, the delicacy of the grey levels sketching the architectural models, everything is highlighted by the artist in such a way as to let us be absorbed by the magic, the rhythm and the attraction of these extraordinary natural phenomena.
Informations :
Tornades
Marina Gadonneix
The Eyes Publishing
March 2022
22 x 23 cm, 72 pages
Design : Florian Brennemann
Text : Marcelline Delbecq
French & ENglish
ISBN : 979-10-92727-48-7
39€
