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Centre Pompidou will stage a group show featuring the four finalists of the Marcel Duchamp prize

Centre Pompidou will stage a group show featuring the four finalists of the Marcel Duchamp prize

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige were declared as the winners of the 2017 Marcel Duchamp prize. The group show from 27 September 2017 – 8 January 2018 will show the works of the four finalists – Maja Bajevic, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige,Charlotte Moth and Vittorio Santoro. With music people expect pure emotion but with art people demand explanation Anges Martin

Based in both Paris and Beirut, and also having showed at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige collaborate on work chiefly concerned with the transmission of knowledge and the narrative potential of the different strata of the image.

TITLE: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Le Cercle de Confusion
YEAR: 1997-2007
DIMENSIONS: 400 x 300 cm
MEDIUM: 3000 fragments photographiques, numérotés, tamponnés et collés sur un miroir
COURTESY: des artistes et de la galerie In Situ – fabienne leclerc / Centre Pompidou



TITLE: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Wonder Beirut, Histoire d’un photographe pyromane,Diassec #1
YEAR: 1997-2006
DIMENSIONS: Série de 18 cartes postales (10 x 15 cm chacune)
MEDIUM: Carte postale de guerre
COURTESY: des artistes et de la galerie In Situ – fabienne leclerc / Centre Pompidou



Trained in Sarajevo and at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, Maja Bajevic exhibited at Documenta 12 in 2007 and at the last Venice Biennale (”all the World’s Futures”) in 2015. She makes politically engaged work that examines contemporary geopolitical situations, access to information and the categories of power (notably economic).

TITLE: Maja Bajevic, Exhibition view
YEAR: 2011
MEDIUM: Continuarà, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2011
COURTESY: the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels / Centre Pompidou



TITLE: Maja Bajevic, Exhibition view
YEAR: 2014
MEDIUM: We are the last ones of yesterday, but the first ones of tomorrow, Michel Rein, Paris, France, 2014
COURTESY: the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels / Centre Pompidou



For her first museum show in Paris, Charlotte Moth – a British artist living in France – continues her exploration of space as architecture and as potential, tendentially transforming the history of art into poetic vision.

TITLE: Chalotte Moth, Choreography of the Image
CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGE: Inserts – Book (Substitute), 
bois, photographies couleur et noir et blanc
YEAR:2015
DIMENSIONS: 130 x 203 x 27 cm
MEDIUM: Vue de l’exposition ‘Travelogue’, Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein
COURTESY: de l’artiste et galerie Marcelle Alix / Centre Pompidou
PHOTO: Stefan Altenburger



TITLE: Chalotte Moth, Living Images (3)
YEAR:2015
DIMENSIONS: 27 x 12 x 9 cm
MEDIUM: moulage en bronze, plastique, Vue de l’exposition ‘lightly in the world’, Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2016
COURTESY: de l’artiste et galerie Marcelle Alix / Centre Pompidou
PHOTO: Aurélien Mole



Born in Switzerland to Sicilian parents and now based in Paris, the self-taught Vittorio Santoro caught the art world’s attention in France with an exhibition at the Foundation Ricard in 2012. Closely connected to literature, his work offers minimalist narratives of objects from a rigorously “exploded” perspective.

TITLE: Vittorio Santoro, The Supposed Half of Yesterday
DIMENSIONS: 73 x 92 x 3,5 cm
YEAR: 2016
MEDIUM: ournal (Le monde), sel de métal gravure à bord de cuivre (3mm), Pièce unique
COURTESY: de l’artiste et galerie Thomas Bernard – Cortex Athletico / Centre Pompidou



TITLE: Vittorio Santoro, To Repel Ghosts
YEAR: 2007
MEDIUM: Installation tube de verre, néon, Environ 180 cm hauteur, 
Edition de 5 exemplaires
COURTESY: de l’artiste et galerie Thomas Bernard – Cortex Athletico / Centre Pompidou



This annual event is organized in collaboration with the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’art Français (aDiaF). Maja Bajevic, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth and Vittorio Santoro have all created new work for the occasion. Pursuing their respective investigations, they explore the image, the poetics of the archive, the hidden genealogies of objects and words.

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