Pe Lang, with Marianthi Papalexadri-Alexandri, have received the 2021 Aurelie Nemours Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the Aurelie Nemours Foundation, under the auspices of the Institut de France, to an artist, whose work “pursues a rigorous plastic quest with a unique spirituality”.

“Pe Lang creates, sees, listens, discovers and renews himself. He reconciles the opposites: the manual and the artisanal with the immaterial, the slow and the fast, the order and the disorder, the odds and the rigor of the calculation, the immutable and the innumerable games of transformation, the simple and the complex”, the jury declares.

Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexadri-Alexandri have been collaborating since 2008. An exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aurelie Nemours Prize, showing a selection of works by each of the laureates, will takes place at the Drawing Lab art space, in Paris, from June 30 to 21 September 2022.

Image: Pe Lang & Marianthi Papalexadri-Alexandri, Galerie Anhava, January 2022. Photo: Jussi Tiainen