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.

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).

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.

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.

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.