Veredict of the Awards Jury

1st INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF THE CARIBBEAN
SANTO DOMINGO 2010

DECISION OF THE PRIZE AWARDING JURY

The present Jury, gathered on the 28th, 29th and 30th of August during three work sessions at the headquarters of the event hosted in the premises of the Museum of Modern Art, located in Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, Gazcue, wishes to congratulate the Dominican Republic pour having offered a venue of important encounters for Art in the Caribbean.

The jury wishes to congratulate also the Minister of Culture in the person of Mr. Le jury José Rafael Lantigua, for having reinitiated the international meeting in an open manner during the last three biennials of the Caribbean and Central America, a space desired by the art community.

The jury congratulates the Museum of Modern Art, its Director Mrs. María Elena Ditrén as well as all her staff.

The jury congratulates the curators, obviously, and particularly the artists participating in this triennial.

The excellence of this triennial deserves to be praised for its wide and inclusive vision reflecting the cultural diversity of the Caribbean, for the relevance of its proposed theme concerning the relation between Art and the Environment, a theme which cannot be avoided today and which allows it being tackled from different approaches and practices.

Taking a decision has not been an easy task due to the high level of conceptualisation and works developed by the artists of this First International Triennial of the Caribbean. We congratulate all artists.

Following our deliberations, we have decided unanimously to grant the following prizes and tokens of appreciation:


SPECIAL MENTIONS TO:

Raúl Morilla, from the Dominican Republic for his installation Reencarnaciones Alteradas, video installation that sets questions concerning the fragility of the relations between Nature and Culture.

Richard Viktor Saindily Cayol, from Guadeloupe, for Pressing Washing of Brain and Memory, for the coincidence and integration between the pictographic and videographic languages.

Heleen Cornet, for Triptych The Magical Mossy Forest 1, 2, 3, from Saba, for the revitalisation of traditional media.

Lourdes de la Riva, from Guatemala, for the video Dulce Proceso, for the subtlety and evocative power of the Plantation, a reality that has made the Caribbean.

Tania Candiani, from Mexico for his video installation entitled Sobre el Tiempo, which establishes a dialectical relation between time and environment.


MENTIONS OF HONOUR

To four artists whose generous participation, works and trajectories enrich this triennial: Antonio Martorell, Edouard Duval Carrié, Jorge Pineda et Marcos Lora Read.

PRIZES

1) Edition Prize to Charles Juhasz Alvarado, from Porto Rico, for his pour De alas iguales. Installation that demonstrates his metaphoric capacity to materialise the concept of rhizome and metamorphosis as a creative tool.

2) Exhibition Prize to Miguelina Rivera, from the Dominican Republic for his work En tu piel... which brings forward a multiplicity of subtleties and levels of interpretation from an underlined paucity of means.

3) Residential Prize to Alida Martinez, from Aruba, for her Mega Bite Candy (MB Candy), for her capacity in expressing the historical and gender dimensions with a variety of materials.

The jury encourages strongly the organizers to maintain the spirit of openness present during this triennial and encourages the artists to continue to offer the world a new interpretation of the Caribbean realities in such a brilliant manner.

Done in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, capital of the Dominican Republic, national district, on the 30th of August of the year two thousand and ten (2010).

ANNIE MICHÈLE DALMACE



YACOUBA KONATÉ



CAROL ESPOSITO DAMIAN



MIRNA DEL ROSARIO GUERRERO VILLALONA



ORLANDO BRITTO JINORIO