Kahlil Joseph has been announced as the winner of this year’s Eye Art & Film Prize. He will receive £25,000 towards the creation of a new work.
Based in Los Angeles, Joseph creates largescale video installations that merge cinema with pop music and visual arts. His critically-acclaimed two-channel video installation BLKNWS (2019), a montage of archive and music clips and newly-shot imagery reflecting on the perception of black culture, premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale. Joseph is also known for creating music videos for Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, FKA twigs and Beyoncé, and serves as the artistic director of the independent arts venue The Underground Museum, Los Angeles.
Joseph was selected by a jury comprising filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, artist Aernout Mik, curators Andrea Lissoni (Tate Modern), Olivia Stewart (PJLF Arts Fund) and Solange Farkas (Associação Cultural Videobrasil), and chaired by Sandra den Hamer, director of Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
Cofounded by Eye Filmmuseum and the Paddy & Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, the prize supports since 2015 artists and filmmakers who work at the intersection of visual art and film. Previous winners have included Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers and Meriem Bennani.
20 March 2020
