Kapwani Kiwanga
Kapwani Kiwanga, Artist Who Centers African Histories, Wins France’s Top Art Prize
By Alex Greenberger
ARTNews
Oct 19, 2020

The competition for this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s top art prize, ended with a win for Kapwani Kiwanga, who is known for her installations about the legacies of colonialism. The Paris-based, Canadian-born artist will now take home €35,000 ($41,000).

Bernard Blistène, the director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, said in a statement, “The richness and complexity of Kapwani Kiwanga’s project, bordering on a reflection between anthropology and art, opens up a vast poetic and political program, a true laboratory of today’s thought on memory and archives as sources of the world’s transfiguration.”

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Kapwani Kiwanga
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