Candice Lin wins the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture 2022: 10 thousand euros and an exhibition for her

Candice Lin (Concord, Massachusetts, 1979) is the winner of the sixth edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture, a prize created in 2006 dedicated to sculpture that awards the sum of 10 thousand euros to an artist between the ages of 25 and 45 whose individual research expresses a reflection on the very idea and practice of sculpture.

The artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, has “in little more than a decade developed a highly personal language, rooted in the history of sculpture and notable for both its interdisciplinary and material variety,” wrote the Prize Selection Committee. "Lin’s works are the result of research that often looks at marginal or forgotten realities and are inspired by figures such as George Psalmanazar, Jeanne Baré, or Lynn Margulis, whose lives and work shake our ideas about issues of race and gender. In his work, Lin often reflects on how materials-and thus also objects and sculpture-can tell social stories: materials steeped in history, such as tea or porcelain, investigated in their sociocultural connotations and analyzed within controversial historical dynamics. However, Lin’s installations are never didactic but speculative, characterized by nuances that blur the line between fiction and truth. His relentless research about the meaning and status of these materials and objects transfigures them in the eyes of the viewer, until he achieves a peculiar and poetic harmony between sculptural form and historical and sociocultural inquiry."

“I thank everyone for choosing to award me the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture,” said the artist. "I am incredibly honored and grateful to have been chosen for this prestigious Prize by a Selection Committee composed of such distinguished members. And it is even more exciting considering the legacy of Arnaldo Pomodoro and the other contemporary artists to whom this Prize has been awarded over the years. I am thrilled to find myself in their company again. In recent years I have been working with ephemeral materials, making sculptural installations that challenge institutional space with such unstable elements as, for example, a mist of distilled urine, a red stain of slowly expanding cochineal, a dilapidated and eroding bedroom made of raw porcelain. I plan to use the generous funds received through the Prize to develop a new body of work that continues my global research on textile stories and techniques, combining them with abstract wooden forms that reference animals and barricades. I hope to share some of this new work, when it is completed, at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art."

Candice Lin will indeed hold an exhibition at GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan in fall 2022.

Photo by Georgia Arnold

Candice Lin wins the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture 2022: 10 thousand euros and an exhibition for her

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