Thursday, July 11 at 6:30 PM

A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street)

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Please join us on Thursday, July 11 at 6:30 PM for an artist talk by French-Russian-Algerian artist Louisa Babari. The winner of the 2023 AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize for mid-career women artists, Babari will present several recent works in film, sound, and collage.

This event marks the conclusion of Babari’s two-month AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize residency in New York City, co-organized by Villa Albertine, A.I.R. Gallery, and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions.

Louisa Babari (b. Moscow, l. Paris) is a French artist of Russian and Algerian descent, working at the intersections of visual and sound arts, critical theory, and literature. Her artistic output includes video works, photographic and sound installations, graphic works, and sculptures. Her work activates forms and discourses related to aesthetic and social change in former socialist countries, resistance and independence struggles, her family archives, phenomena of displacement, and questions related to the body, architecture, literature and translation. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MAC Val, the Kadist Foundation, the David Roberts Art Foundation, the Musée du quai Branly, the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Bozar, Brussels, and the Dakar Biennale. In 2023, she was awarded the AWARE Prize for mid-career women artists.

About the AWARE Prizes 

Since their creation in 2016, the AWARE prizes have shone a new light on the careers of women artists and increased recognition of their work. In 2022, one of the two AWARE prizes, hitherto dedicated to emerging artists, became the Nouveau Regard prize to be awarded to mid-career artists, who are currently less supported by existing prizes and the art world. The winner of this new prize benefits from a residency at the Villa Albertine and tailored accompaniment by A.I.R. Gallery in New York. As part of its partnership with AWARE, the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques) offers the winner of the Nouveau Regard prize the acquisition of works that will join its collection. The winning artist also benefits from a production grant for a solo exhibition to be held within the D.C.A network (French Association for the Development of Contemporary Art Centers).

About AWARE

AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a non-profit association dedicated to shining a light on women and non-binary artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since its creation in 2014, AWARE has worked to make thousands of artists visible by creating many different types of innovative content, all available for free in both English and French on the AWARE website, as well as through organizing and participating in academic and non-academic events (symposiums, conferences, curation of art fairs). AWARE also supports contemporary artists by awarding two contemporary art prizes every year.