Grand Prix of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts: Birth as Criterion

Premios / Dotación:
Grand Prix:   
Lista de ganadores:
Alejandro Paz 
Research Residence Award:   
Lista de ganadores:
Carlos Monroy - Marilyn Monroy  Inscripción:
Cerrada desde 05-11-2017

Dónde:
Ljubljana, Bohinj Commune, Eslovenia

Dirigido a:
Artistas

Organizada por:
The International Centre of Graphic Arts

       

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Descripción del Premio

The Grand Prize winner of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts is Alejandro Paz. Research Residency Award was given to Carlos Monroy. The jury of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts: Anne Barlow, Mike Cooter, Bige Örer in Maruša Sagadin. Grand Prize of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts: Alejandro Paz In his project for the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, Alejandro Paz engages with the patches of paint removal and analysis that reveal the layers of history contained within the fabric of the architecture housing MGLC’s galleries. Paz’s subtle interventions overlay these fragments with partial images of the tattooed skin of Guatemalan prisoners – itself a set of complex registrations of class, social status and gang membership that is concealed by the architecture of state power. By striking a compelling balance between graphic photographic imagery and a poetic evocation of the registrations of history layered in the skins of bodies both architectural and physical, Paz’s work for the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts is a powerful rumination on the interwoven social, architectural and political factors that constitute individual and collective identity. On the strength of this work, within a larger practice that encompasses art and architecture, performance and installation, the jury was delighted to select Alejandro Paz as the winner of the 2017 Grand Prix.Work on the Biennial: Hypodermic (2017, intervention), made for the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts.

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