Hope 2019
Margaret Courtney-Clarke, I’ll get Rich, 2017.
The theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet was Hope – a theme that offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set of connections to the Prix Pictet’s overriding theme of sustainability. Hope in the face of adversity. Recycling. Reforestation. Rewilding. Science – advances in medicine – and technological solutions for global environmental problems. Falling poverty levels. It is time to examine some of the positive actions on sustainability that are beginning to emerge by contrast with the alarming analysis that constantly assails us in the global media. Prix Pictet Hope was awarded to Joana Choumali for her series, ça va aller, by Chair of the independent judging panel Sir David King at the opening of the exhibition of works by the shortlisted artists at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Shortlist
Joana Choumali, Ça va aller, 2016-2019
Shahidul Alam, Still She Smiles, 2014
Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain, 2014 - 2018
Rena Effendi, Transylvania: Built on Grass, 2012
Lucas Foglia, Human Nature, 2006 – 2019
Janelle Lynch, Another Way of Looking at Love, 2015-2018
Gideon Mendel, A Testament of Faded Memory, 2016
Ross McDonnell, Limbs, 2012
Ivor Prickett, End of the Caliphate, 2016 - 2018
Robin Rhode, Principle of Hope, 2017
Awoiska van der Molen, Am schwarzen Himmelsrund, 2010-2018
Alexia Webster, Street Studios, 2011-2018
“Hope” virtual walkthrough
V&A London
Jury
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Sir David King (Chairman)
Affiliate Partner, SystemIQ Limited
Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda
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Martin Barnes and Marta Weiss
Senior Curators of Photographs
Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Philippe Bertherat
Former Managing Partner, Pictet Group
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Jan Dalley
Arts Editor, Financial Times
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Herminia Ibarra
Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour
London Business School -
Richard Mosse
Photographer, Winner of Prix Pictet Space
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Jeff Rosenheim
Curator in Charge, Photographs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Kazuyo Sejima
Co-Founder, SANAA
Pritzker Prize-winning architects
Winner interview
Prix Pictet Hope laureate Joana Choumali winning series Ça va aller. Find out more about this series, shortlisted for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet, in this interview with the artist, which took place during the Award Ceremony of #PrixPictetHope at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
