PRIX POWERHOUSE 2024
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse is pleased to announce that Natacha Clitandre and Lynn Kodeih have been selected as winners of the Prix Powerhouse 2024!
The PRIX POWERHOUSE is a biennial recognition award of $10,000 shared between two Montreal artists to celebrate their careers. It is open to mid-career and established women and gender minorities who have made a significant contribution to Montreal's cultural scene. The award honors artists who demonstrate perseverance and commitment to their work.
La Centrale would like to acknowledge the generous contribution of an anonymous donor who made this award possible.
The awards ceremony with the winners and the vernissage will take place on September 6, 2024, from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. The exhibition will run from September 6 to October 19, 2024.
Natacha Clitandre completed a B.A. in Visual Arts from UQAM in 2000. In 2007, she completed a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art and New Media at Université Paris 8 and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD). As part of her graduated studies, she attended Brown University and RISD in Providence, Rhode Island.
Her work has been presented in Europe (Nantes, Paris, Brussels) and North America (Montreal, Laval, Quebec City, Paspebiac, Pittsburgh, New York City and Baltimore). Also a cultural worker, she developed the Slow Tech posture of the feminist artist center Ada X, where she was—from 2017 to 2022—programming coordinator and artistic director of the HTMlles festival. She lives and works in Montreal/Mooniyang/Tio’tia:ke.
Born in Beirut, Lynn Kodeih is based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal since 2020. Her work is invested in the politics of the image and addresses notions of space, borders, wandering, and belonging in a colonial and post-colonial world. Her practice is at the crossroads of textuality and auto-theory, video and installation. Her formal and plastic experiments create processes favoring erasure and dismantlement, and touch as much on the different substrates of the image (silver and digital), as on materiality and accident. She works from a decolonial and intersectional perspective to make issues of power dynamics and systemic violence visible. By questioning the impossibility of representation, her work reflects on the land that has been dispossessed, colonized, and abandoned through forced displacement.
Alongside her artistic practice, Kodeih collaborates as a programmer and lecturer with several universities and art institutions since 2009 (Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery; ALBA; USJ among others). She is co-founder of polycephaly.net, a platform for research and conversation around art and politics. Kodeih is the recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship 2024. Kodeih holds a BA in Literary Studies, a DES and MFA in Theatre and Performance (Lebanese University and Saint Joseph University, Beirut-Lebanon), and Visual Arts (UQAM-Canada). Her work has been presented in international group exhibitions, including Kunstbanken Performance Festival (Norway), Rotterdam Film Festival (Netherlands), Transart Triennial (Berlin), Homeworks - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center and Beirut Art Fair (Lebanon), La Galerie de l’UQAM and SAW Center (Canada) among other places.
We thank our esteemed jury: Deanna Bowen (artist and curator), Julia Eilers Smith (curator and writer) and Maria Ezcurra (artist and curator, Powerhouse 2022 award winner)
