The LAccolade Foundation is contributing to the 2021 edition of the COAL Prize under the theme of The Forest.
In just a few decades, the forest has become both symbol and focal point of the greed, environmental disasters and struggles that are shaking up the contemporary world in crisis. Thirteen million hectares of forests disappear every year, due to increasing agriculture, overgrazing, logging, and urbanization. Entire swathes of forest in the Amazon, Australia and sub-Saharan Africa are burning while others die standing as they suffer the effects of global warming, depriving wildlife of their natural habitats. Worldwide, people are fighting in defence of these reserves of life and culture and to use them as blueprints for future worlds yet to be built.
Camille Plancher, 22-year-old French activist. He carries out acts of civil disobedience by attaching himself to trees at night in order to prevent foresters from accessing logging areas. Bialowieza, Poland. October 2017 © Andrea Olga Mantovani
After a 2020 edition under the sign of Biodiversity, the COAL Prize dedicates its 2021 edition to the crucial issue of forests at the center of the climate crisis and ecological transition. Faced with a situation as complex as it is urgent, the COAL Prize 2021 once again invites artists from around the world to mobilize and reveal a world still alive, to feel and experience the ecological balance of forests, to promote the diversity of beings and cultures that inhabit them, to revive their ancestral knowledge and give birth to new ones, to nourish the movements of resilience they inspire, and above all, to act with the protectors of nature.
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
Raphaël Abrille, Secretary General of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Jerome Poulain, Ministry of Culture
Christopher Yggdre, Curator and artistic director of the LAccolade Foundation
Carine Dolek, Curator
Loic Fel, President of COAL, philosopher and expert in sustainable development
Clément Willemin, co-founder of COAL and landscaper
Lauranne Germond, co-founder and director of COAL
THE ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE 12TH EDITION OF THE COAL PRIZE
Karin Bolender (États-Unis), Ask the Ghost Tree What Time It Is
Marjolijn Dijkman (Pays-Bas), Between the Lines
Sara Favriau (France), Je vois trouble longuement, un paysage transitoire
Collectif Fibra (Pérou), Desbosque : desenterrando señales
Julie C. Fortier (Canada), Résilience et récits
Beya Gille Gacha (France), Ce qu’elle fera de nous
Noémie Goudal (France), Les mécaniques
Vincent Laval (France), À la croisée des chemins
Erik Samakh (France), Zones de bruit
Feda Wardak (France), En-dessous, la forêt
THE JURY 2021
Frédérique Aït-Touati, CNRS researcher and director
Daria de Beauvais, Curator at the Palais de Tokyo
Catherine Dobler, Founder of the LAccolade Foundation
Christine Germain-Donnat, Director of the Hunting and Nature Museum
Paul Jarquin, Founder and President of REI Habitat, President of Fibois IDF
Olivier Lerude, Senior Official for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Culture
Charlotte Meunier, President of the Nature Reserves of France
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Responsible for the cultural programming of the Cité internationale des arts
Marc-André Selosse, Biologist, Professor of the Natural History Museum of Paris
Joelle Zask, Philosopher