The Prix Pierre Daix 2025 will go to Elvan Zabunyan for her work Réunir les bouts du monde. Art, histoire, esclavage en mémoire, published in October 2024 by éditions B42, the Pinault Collection announced today.
Born in Paris in 1968, Zabunyan is a contemporary art historian, art critic, and professor at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University. Zabunyan’s book celebrates major figures of the African American and Caribbean art scene such as Arthur Jafa and Frank Bowling, and situates them within an art, literary and historical continuum.
The first edition of the Pierre Daix Bursary, meanwhile, which aims to support young art historians in their writing, has been awarded to Clara Royer, for her work specialising in art and telecommunications of the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, a time that saw the development and arrival of the internet.
Both were selected by a jury composed of ten figures from the world of art and academia.
