Anne Tronche Wins Pecha Kucha Prize for Laura Lamiel Presentation

On March 8, 2013, AICA organized a Pecha Kucha at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where eight critics presented the work of eight women artists using 20 images shown for 20 seconds each (6 min 40 sec total). The jury, composed of foreign AICA bureau presidents and chaired by Anaël Pigeat, editor-in-chief of artpress, awarded first prize to Anne Tronche for her presentation on Laura Lamiel. Tronche, a renowned art historian and former inspector of artistic creation, was a key figure in the magazine Opus. The special jury prize went to Marie-Cécile Burnichon for her presentation on Miriam Cahn. The event's partner, art press, published Tronche's talk, which also previews her upcoming curatorial role for a Lamiel exhibition at the cabinet d'arts graphiques of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne. Lamiel's work since the 1980s features white enameled steel panels (2.10 x 1.20 m) arranged as autonomous walls, creating a dialogue between luminous white interiors and industrial exteriors. Her 'Cellules' series incorporates found objects—old gloves, carpet rolls, shopping carts, rubber coils—that disrupt the white homogeneity. In 2006, for a solo show at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, she replaced steel bricks with cheap soap bars engraved with the Christ the Redeemer image. Her practice explores geometry, abstraction, and the tension between order and disorder, as exemplified by a 2013 installation at SilberKuppe, Berlin.