Phan Quang is shortlisted for the Discovery Award 2026 | Louis Roederer Foundation
[from Rencontres d’Arles]
AWARDS
DISCOVERY AWARD 2026
LOUIS ROEDERER FOUNDATION
PROJECTS SHORTLISTED!
We are delighted to announce the artists and organisations selected among more than 300 applications received from all over the world for the Discovery Award 2026 Louis Roederer Foundation:
→ PHAN QUANG[*] (Vietnam)
presented by Galerie Bao (France).
→ SOULEYMANE BACHIR DIAW (Senegal)
presented by La.ima (France).
→ JORDAN BEAL (Martinique, France)
presented by La Station Culturelle (Martinique, France).
→ AMIRA LAMTI (Tunisia)
presented by Doors (France / China).
→ MALLORY LOWE MPOKA (Canada / Belgium / Cameroon)
presented by Occurrence (Canada).
→ MAGALI PAULIN (France)
presented by doubledummy (France).
→ CHARLOTTE YONGA (France / Cameroon)
presented by Fondation H (Madagascar).
Their projects are supported by guest curator Nadine Hounkpatin and will be exhibited at the next edition of the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles, from 6 July to 4 October 2026.
During the opening week, a jury will be invited to award the Discovery Prize, which will reward one of the seven selected projects with a €15,000 acquisition of works; and the public will vote for the Public Prize, which will reward one of the selected projects with a €5,000 acquisition of works. The works will be added to the Rencontres d’Arles collection.
“The best way to tell the truth[**]... might be to accept that in photography, it is neither immediate nor neutral. The seven artists brought together for the 2026 Discovery Award show that truth is constructed through relationships, proximity and the engagement of bodies, memories and legacies. Rooted in multiple cultural and historical narratives, activated by ritual, movement or intimate archives, photographic truth becomes processual and situated. It embraces subjectivity as an ethical, critical and political condition for accessing a reality that is always in flux, never given once and for all. On the contrary, this reality is constructed, sometimes contested and always transformed through these multiple and committed perspectives.”
Nadine Hounkpatin
ABOUT NADINE HOUNKPATIN
Born in Bohicon, Benin.
Lives and works between Europe, Africa and its diasporas.
Nadine Hounkpatin’s curatorial practice focuses on the historical and artistic narratives of the ‘Tout-Monde’[***] (Whole World), their circulation and their memories. Co-founder of TheArtMomentum platform, she designs projects at the crossroads of African and international scenes. Her collaborative practice aims to write a more inclusive and decentralised history of art, in dialogue with contemporary realities. Since 2021, she has been directing the touring exhibition Memoria: récits d’une autre Histoire (Memoria: narratives of another History), a pioneering exhibition dedicated to women artists from Africa and the diasporas, initially presented at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, then in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Yaoundé (Cameroon) and Antananarivo (Madagascar). She lectures at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and sits on award juries (MEP × Collection Leridon × Cité internationale des arts, Prix pour la Photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Photography Prize, 2025), assisted in the selection of the first winners of the Hermès Foundation’s ‘Latitudes’ programme, in partnership with the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation and the International Center of Photography, and provides curatorial support to artist-researchers in the ‘Résonance’ residency programme, IF Nigeria × Cité internationale des arts × ART X Lagos.
[*] In Vietnam, it is customary to give the surname followed by the first name.
[**] Carrie Mae Weems, interview “Introduction to Carrie Mae Weems with Ronan McKenzie,” Barbican Centre, 2023.
[***] Édouard Glissant, Tout-monde, Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
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