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\n\tRene Mati\u0107 was named the winner of the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the \u00a330,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition \u201cAS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,\u201d which closed at CCA Berlin in February.<\/p>\n
\n\tMati\u0107, who is based in London, works across photography, sculpture, sound, poetry, and film to examine social dynamics of race, gender, and intimacy through the lens of national symbols (flags are a recurring motif). Their practice includes an excavation of British subculture, including the \u201crude boy,\u201d a fashion and ideological formation that emerged in the aftermath of postcolonial resistance movements.<\/p>\n
\n\tPart photography, part sculpture, and part installation, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH<\/em> positioned itself within the rise of right-wing populism, asking how the personal intersects with\u2014and survives\u2014the political. It extended an earlier exhibition staged at Vitrine Gallery titled \u201cBorn British Die British,\u201d which foregrounded Mati\u0107\u2019s relationship with their father.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cConversation about representation politics comes up so much in photography and in image-making, but we never move past that,\u201d Mati\u0107 said in an interview with the gallery. \u201cWe don\u2019t talk about what we want to be represented as doing. I want to be represented as being cared for. There are a lot of images of us having violence put on us out there. I want to show a counter-image.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBorn in 1997, Mati\u0107 is among the youngest awardees in the prize\u2019s 40-year history and the first British recipient in more than a decade. They were also a contender for the 2025 Turner Prize, making them the second-youngest nominee in the institution\u2019s history.<\/p>\n \n\tThey were selected from a shortlist that included Iranian photographer Amak Mahmoodian, American photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood, and Polish visual artist Weronika G\u0119sicka. Each artist will receive \u00a35,000, and their work will be exhibited at the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation in Eschborn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from September 3 through January 17, 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/rene-matic-awarded-2026-deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-1234785912\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2238540064.jpg?w=1024″] Rene Mati\u0107 was named the winner of the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the \u00a330,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition \u201cAS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,\u201d which closed at CCA Berlin in February. Mati\u0107, who is based in London, works across photography, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1942552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}