Hope

Hope ²⁰¹⁹

Margaret Courtney-Clarke, I’ll get Rich, 2017.

The theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet was Hope – a theme that offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set of connections to the Prix Pictet’s overriding theme of sustainability. Hope in the face of adversity. Recycling. Reforestation. Rewilding. Science – advances in medicine – and technological solutions for global environmental problems. Falling poverty levels. It is time to examine some of the positive actions on sustainability that are beginning to emerge by contrast with the alarming analysis that constantly assails us in the global media. Prix Pictet Hope was awarded to Joana Choumali for her series, ça va aller, by Chair of the independent judging panel Sir David King at the opening of the exhibition of works by the shortlisted artists at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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Shortlist

Joana Choumali, Ça va aller, 2016-2019

Shahidul Alam, Still She Smiles, 2014

Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain, 2014 - 2018

Rena Effendi, Transylvania: Built on Grass, 2012

Lucas Foglia, Human Nature, 2006 – 2019

Janelle Lynch, Another Way of Looking at Love, 2015-2018

Gideon Mendel, A Testament of Faded Memory, 2016

Ross McDonnell, Limbs, 2012

Ivor Prickett, End of the Caliphate, 2016 - 2018

Robin Rhode, Principle of Hope, 2017

Awoiska van der Molen, Am schwarzen Himmelsrund, 2010-2018

Alexia Webster, Street Studios, 2011-2018

Jury

Winner interview

Prix Pictet Hope laureate Joana Choumali winning series Ça va aller. Find out more about this series, shortlisted for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet, in this interview with the artist, which took place during the Award Ceremony of #PrixPictetHope at the Victoria and Albert Museum.