They have revealed the names of the nominees for the prestigious 2023 Turner Prize, the winner of which will be announced on December 5.
These are four artists: Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker, whose work, examining the “paradoxes and contradictions of life”, will be on display at the Towner Museum in the English city of Eastbourne from September 28.
This work was celebrated yesterday, at Tate Britain in London.
Tate Britain, the former National Gallery of British Art, is the museum responsible for organizing and awarding the important prize, which awards the winner £25,000, and £5,000 to each of the other three nominees.
Farguharson, chair of the jury for the prestigious award, noted that the award offers audiences “a glimpse into current British artistic talent”.
“Each of these artists explores the paradoxes and contradictions of life, blending conceptual and political concerns with warmth, levity, sincerity and tenderness, often celebrating individual identity and the strength of community,” he said.
In the case of Jesse Darling, the artist who divides his time between London and Berlin, Turner chose for his solo exhibitions No Medals No Ribbons, at the Oxford Center for Modern Art, and enclosures at the Camden Art Centre.
Today, the director of the Tate Modern stressed that it uses sculptures and installations to “evoke the vulnerability of the human body and the fragility of power structures.”
Fargwarson highlighted the artist’s ability to manipulate materials “in ways that subtly express the chaotic reality of life” and reveal the “fundamental fragility of the world”.
The jury particularly commended Sweden’s Jesselyn Leung, who lives and works in London, for the “warm, humorous, and transcendental qualities that underlie the clean aesthetics and conceptual nature” of her work. Leung has been nominated for her exhibition Fountains in Simian, Copenhagen.
Another nominee, Rory Pilgrim, is ready for his work on Rafts, on display at the Serpentine and at Barkingtown Hall and for a live performance of his work at Cadogan Hall in London, which provides “a striking example of social practice”, the jury said today.
Pilgrim’s work brings together stories, poems, music and videos in collaboration with communities in the east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham to “reflect times of change and difficulty during the pandemic”.
The fourth nominee, Barbara Walker, was nominated for the Burden of Proof Prize at Sharjah Biennial 15 in the UAE, a work that explores the impact of the so-called Windrush scandal.
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