PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC WINS FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS 2022

Chilean artist Paula de Solminihac was selected as the winner of the 2022 Faena Prize for the Arts over 395 proposals from over 72 countries.

PAULA DE SOLMINIHAC WINS FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS 2022

Paula de Solminihac’s large scale topographic installation—created in collaboration with architect Vicente Donoso—invites endless interaction and play for everyone on the beach, welcoming a diversity of ability-inclusive activities that include touching, playing, resting, watching, listening, and exploring the installation. At night, when the beach is closed to the public, Morning Glory will become illuminated and generate a totally different sensory experience than from the day. The installation takes the form of the Beach Morning Glory, a traveling evergreen vine that is nearly omnipresent throughout the beaches of Florida as well as the entire world thanks to its floating, seawater-resistant seeds. Once embedded onto a beach, this plant both prevents sand dunes from moving against strong winds and eventually becomes the humus soil that gives rise to other organisms.  

The Jury of the 2022 Faena Prize for the Arts included Cecilia Alemani (Curator of the 59th Venice Biennale); artist Alexandre ArrecheaCaroline Bourgeois (Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection); cultural place-maker Ximena CaminosChus Martínez (Director Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel); and José Roca (Artistic Director 23rd Biennale of Sydney). 

De Solminihac will receive the 100,000 USD prize, which includes 25,000 USD for the artist and a budget of up to 75,000 USD towards the production of her immersive installation at the Faena Beach in Miami Beach.  

Faena Art also awards runner-up Paloma Bosquê with an iteration of her proposal Education by the Stone in the Faena Art Project Room on view in 2023 in recognition of her site-responsive application for this year’s Faena Prize.

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