The Marion De Canniere Prize 2025 is awarded to: Angyvir Padilla!
From the jury rapport:
This year, the prize goes to an artist who succeeds in evoking, with quiet intensity, a profound world - a world where fragility and strength, past and present, personal memory and universal feeling are all intertwined.
Her practice is layered, investigative, and deeply felt.
She works with care and tenderness, but never without a certain sharpness.
The materials she chooses - often organic, found, or seemingly ordinary - take on a poetic charge in her hands, as if whispering about what lingers, what fades, and what remains.
In her work, she invites us to take a closer look at the places we inhabit.
By examining how we embody memory, she suggests that - on the journey between immanence and transcendence - the traces of our past seep into a persistent present.
The environments she creates alter our perception of reality.
As we enter into a dialogue with her work, the sense of otherness we encounter reveals its true essence.
(Mónica Echegarreta.)
What sets this artist apart is her ability to create space for silence, for reflection, and for sensory experience.
Her work invites us to slow down, to look - and then, to look again.
In a time dominated by speed and noise, her work offers a soft yet powerful counterbalance.
This year, we asked a number of curators to nominate an artist.
The curators involved were:
Pieter Vermeulen, Sam Steverlinck, Valerie Verhack, Philippe Van Cauteren, Koi Persyn, Luk Lambrecht, Alicja Melzacka, Zeynep Kubat, Welmer Keesmaat, Carine Fol, Jef Declercq, Caroline Dumalin, Tamara Beheydt, Laurens Otto, and Stijn Maes.
This resulted in the following list of nominated artists:
Laure Winants, Lucian Moriyama, Judith Van Oeckel, Kamiel De Waal, Angyvir Padilla, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Wim De Pauw, Charbel Alkhoury, Deveny Faruque, Clémentine Coupau, Paola Siri, Rachel Daniëls, Liselore Vandeput, Rémie Vanderhaegen, Evi Olde Rikkert, Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Alexandra Puşcaş, Jan Laroy, Sara Deraedt, Serene Hui, and Alice Visentin.
The jury - composed of all the artists represented by FRED&FERRY - unanimously selected a voice that is clear, honest, and profoundly distinctive: Angyvir Padilla
