WINNER: DOMINIQUE WHITE
Dominique White (b.1993, UK) was announced as the winner of the 9th edition of the prize on 28 March 2023, for her proposal of a new body of work entitled Deadweight.
The residency, organised by Collezione Maramotti, is specially designed to inform, support and develop the work through dedicated resources and a tailored programme of research, mentoring and skill-building.
The finalised project was presented at Whitechapel Gallery 2nd July – 15 September 2024 before travelling to Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy from 27 October 2024 – 16 February 2025.
ABOUT DOMINIQUE WHITE
Dominique White has a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and a Foundation in Art and Design from Central Saint Martins. Recent solo exhibitions and presentations include: Destruction of Order, VEDA (Florence, Italy, 2024); Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea, ICA Philadelphia (Philadelphia, USA 2024); When Disaster Strikes…, Kunsthalle Münster (Münster, Germany 2023-4), May You Break Free and Outlive Your Enemy, La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain, 2023) and Statements, Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland, 2022). Recent group exhibitions include Afterimage at MAXXI; Aquila (Italy, L’Aquila, 2022-2023); Love at Bold Tendencies (London, UK, 2022); Techno Worlds at Art Quarter Budapest, commissioned by Goethe-Institut (Travelling) (2021-2025).
White was awarded the Foundwork Artist Prize of 2022 (US), has received awards from Artangel (UK), the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020 and the Roger Pailhas Prize (Art-O-Rama, FR) in conjunction with her solo presentation with VEDA in 2019. White was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (Chile), Triangle France – Astéride (France) and La Becque (Switzerland) in 2020 and 2021.
ABOUT THE AWARDED ARTWORK
White’s project Deadweight continues her key artistic, political and philosophical concerns, with a focus on exploring and creating new worlds for ‘Blackness’, weaving together theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Hydrarchy, manifested through distinctive sculptural installations employing discarded nautical relics and materials such as clay and untreated iron.
‘Deadweight’ is not only a new thread in this exploration of means of abolishing the state, it is a new chapter in imagining a new future. The core of my practice is about daring to dream of new worlds in the unknown and attempt to bring them to fruition. It’s a reminder that there isn’t only one future, or one interpretation of how the world should be and I truly believe that these are the times that we should persist in these aspirations to survive, to retaliate and defy categorisation’ – Dominique White
