An act of sharing and solidarity at the 2019 Turner Prize: winners all finalists

The 2019 Turner Prize has been won by. all finalists: for the first time in the history of the prestigious prize named after English painter William Turner since 1984, this year the Turner Prize named all four finalist artists as winners.

The artists submitted a letter in which they requested that the four of them accept their request to share the prestigious prize “in the name of sharing, plurality and solidarity.”

Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of the British edition of Vogue, revealed the winners and said that "the artists wanted to seize the opportunity of the Turner Prize to make a strong statement of community and solidarity"; he explained in the face of the surprised reaction of the audience that the jury felt they shared this social and political statement significant to the present in which we live.

“At a time of political crisis in England and most of the world, where there is division and isolation among people and communities,” the four finalists said in the letter, "we feel strongly motivated to share this prize as a sign of sharing, plurality and solidarity -- in art as in society."

The 2019 Turner Prize winners are thus Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani. Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Jordanian contemporary artist specializing in sound art that he transforms into audiovisual installations and sound files, making each work an up-close and spatial experience. His exhibition at Earwitness Theatre and his performance After Sfx earned him the award: “My interest in sound comes from the fact that it can be contained, it can’t be put in a box. It will still come out.” Helen Cammock is a British artist who works with moving images, photography, text, printmaking and performance. Her film The Long Note, which celebrates women’s participation in the 1968 civil rights movement in Derry, won her the Turner Prize. “Stories are never behind us.... They are part of who we are, who I am, who you are. I could never think of making work about contemporary life that doesn’t involve past stories.” His art is based on the complex social histories of history’s marginalized in order to give them a voice in front of today’s viewer. Oscar Murillo is a Colombian artist who uses video, painting or sculpture to denounce the social and economic inequality of the world we live in. He won the award with his work Violent Amnesia. “In my work I try to maintain a balance between my desire to think mainly about creating images, textures, forms and this constant awareness of the world.” Recurring themes in his works are migration flows, globalization and social injustice. Tai Shani is a British artist who uses various media such as performance, film, photography, sculpture and spoken word to investigate forgotten histories and to give voice to her protagonists. The award came for the works DC: SEMIRAMIS and The Tetley: "I am interested in femininity and the ways out of the situation we are in now. The female world becomes a fantasy world full of utopia; her works are deeply affective and often combine rich and complex monologues with installations.

Pictured are the four winners

An act of sharing and solidarity at the 2019 Turner Prize: winners all finalists

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