Charlotte Prodger has won the “political” 2018 Turner Prize for film work examining landscapes and gender identity shot on an iPhone. Charlotte Prodger has won the “political” 2018 Turner Prize for film work examining landscapes and gender identity shot on an iPhone. 2018 Turner Prize winner Charlotte Prodger with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tate director Maria Balshaw (Victoria Jones/PA)The exhibit impressed prize judges for the way it explores “lived experience as mediated through technologies and histories”. A still from BRIDGIT, 2016, by Charlotte Prodger (Charlotte Prodge/Koppe Astner)“In terms of the winner, it’s one that seems to make a lot of points for a younger generation. “It deals with gender as unfixed, as something fluid, as something not always conforming to society’s norms.”2018 Turner Prize winner Charlotte Prodger (Victoria Jones/PA)Tate, which hosts the Turner Prize, announced: “The jury admired the painterly quality BRIDGIT and the attention it paid to art history.

Source: Irish Independent December 04, 2018 21:59 UTC