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LAUREATE — PRIX SPÉCIAL HORS COMPÉTITION
FONDATION CARMIGNAC · PRIX COAL 2026
Artemisia Noctis: A Grammar of Darkness
Elena Bajo, Anarchoreography Nocturna, conceptual visualisation for Artemisia Noctis: A Grammar of Darkness, 2026.
Elena Bajo is the inaugural laureate of the Prix Spécial Hors Compétition – Fondation Carmignac, awarded within the Prix COAL 2026, whose seventeenth edition is dedicated to the night.
Exhibition: 4 December 2026–10 January 2027
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
Manifesta 15
The Swamp Thing
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2026 — Elena Bajo Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts
The Quantum Leaf Speaks in Ancient Tongues develops anarchoreographies—choreographic scores that operate as living an-archives. Through site- and non-site-responsive protocols, matrilineal Celtic plant knowledge, bodies, vegetal and mineral matter, and algorithms act as epistemic agents within what Bajo calls Relational Intelligence. Their signals, movements and material transformations accumulate in an evolving Quantum Phyto Codex: a transmaterial archive generated from the memories and materials each place already holds.