COAL PRIZE 2022 – THE LAUREATES
Marina Gioti was awarded the COAL Prize yesterday for her project Sounding the Silent World. A special jury prize was also awarded to Brandon Ballengée for his project Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf. The prizes were awarded during a ceremony held at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, in the presence of the nominated artists and members of a jury made up of experts in art, ecology and research, chaired by Christine Germain-Donnat, Director of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and Bruno David, President of the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle.
The COAL Awards ceremony, dedicated in 2022 to the theme of the oceans, took place on June 8, on the occasion of World Oceans Day.
The Ocean, this geographical, dreamlike and political horizon, cultural heritage as much as natural and a breeding ground for the imagination, is at the root of the global phenomena that make our planet habitable. The first carbon sink before forests, a climate regulator, it constitutes the largest ecosystem on the planet, at the very place where life emerged. It is also the cradle of economic and commercial life, home to the majority of humans in its coastal areas and supporting three billion people who depend directly on marine biodiversity for their livelihood.
The transformation of the oceans in the face of climate change is a real challenge, both in terms of taking action and in terms of raising awareness of processes that are sometimes elusive: ocean warming, rising sea levels, acidification and deoxygenation of the seas, overexploitation of fishery resources, plastic pollution, degradation of marine habitats, proliferation of invasive species, etc.
The projects of the winners of the COAL 2022 Prize, the Special Jury Prize of the COAL 2022 Prize and the COAL Student Prize – Culture & Diversity 2022 reveal the ocean’s riches to the greatest number of people and imagine new concrete actions to revive resilience with the water worlds.
“This prize perfectly illustrates the raison d’être of the François Sommer Foundation”, said Alban de Loisy, General Director of the François Sommer Foundation.
“It is important that in the artistic field, there are people who stand up, express themselves and show the threats to the ocean. I hope that the winning projects will carry this type of message. Let’s protect the ocean for its beauty and not only for the services it can provide to humanity,” said Bruno David, President of the National Museum of Natural History.
Marina Gioti, winner of the COAL 2022 Prize
The members of the jury awarded the COAL 2022 Prize to Marina Gioti for her project Sounding the Silent World, which aspires to explore the past and present state of derelict wrecks and ships, their touching presence and puzzling materiality in order to activate a discourse and speculation on their future. The artist has chosen as a case study the archaeological site of Eleusis, west of Athens. An ancient sanctuary and ritual center, home of the eponymous mysteries and entrance to the mythological underworld, the coastal city, now an industrial center, now conceals a veritable marine cemetery in its abyss.” You address the long time, the distant past, but you also evoke the future of these wrecks; both what comes from very far and what goes very far”, said Olivier Lerude, Senior Official for Sustainable Development of the Ministry of Culture to the winner during the award ceremony.
© Marina Gioti, Sounding the Silent World, 2022
Brandon Ballengée, Special Jury Prize
The jury also distinguished Brandon Ballengée’s Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, an interdisciplinary art and environmental project that seeks to make visible the biodiversity that is disappearing with indifference, making the Gulf of Mexico a case study, at a time when Louisiana’s coastal lands are eroding at an unprecedented rate, also threatening the inhabitants and their cultures.
© Brandon Ballengée, Searching for Ghosts of the Gulf, 2022
The COAL 2022 Prize and the Special Jury Prize
The winner of the COAL Prize receives an endowment of 10,000 euros and a residency at the Museum of Hunting and Nature at the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation.
The Special Jury Prize awarded to Brandon Ballengée is endowed with 3,000 euros by the partners of the COAL 2022 Prize.
The partners of the COAL 2022 Prize
Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize benefits from the patronage of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the support of the Ministry of Culture, the European Union via the European cooperation program ACT (Art Climate Transition), the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation since 2014, the French Office of Biodiversity and the LAccolade Foundation.
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