PARIS.- The OFFSCREEN Curatorial Prize is awarded annually to a noteworthy proposal in the exhibition. The prize is voted by the OFFSCREEN Curatorial Residents, leading thinkers around image-based practices from major institutions around the world who are invited to gather at OFFSCREEN each year. This year's residents came from Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), M+ (Hong Kong), Museo Tamayo (Mexico), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Smithsonian (Washington, DC), Singapore Art Museum and others.

At OFFSCREEN's 5th Edition, at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salp�tri�re, the 2026 OFFSCREEN Curatorial Prize is awarded exceptionally to two proposals, by Sarah Brahim and by Andrea Geyer.

Sarah Brahim, presented by Albion Jeune, exhibited a video work In Search of an Honest Map (2025) in intimate relation with the architecture of the chapel, inserted into an alcove in one of the naves. A collection of polaroids, Lexicography (2025) displayed in dialogue, is a play of scale, and a generative juxtaposition of mediums, with a selection showing an intimate meditation on gestures.

Andrea Geyer, presented by Zander Gallery, developed a site-specific iteration of her work Feeding the Ghosts (2019). Situated in the "Magasins," the work uniquely interweaves with the historic archives behind the chapelle. Dozens of slide projectors and a library developed for the installation is overlaid with a meditative soundtrack reflecting on Chantal Akerman's "A Family in Brussels."

Created in 2024, the OFFSCREEN Curatorial Residency is a unique program in Paris dedicated to institutional curators working with still and moving image practices. Each October, during Paris Art week, residents participate in closed-door working sessions, host public conversations and connect with OFFSCREEN artists throughout the week's program. The prize has previously been awarded to Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, presented by Poggi gallery in 2025, and Suzanne Brockman, presented by Soft Network in 2024.

OFFSCREEN Paris values contemporary, historic and avant-garde artists with image-based practices. With its distinct voice, it is a must-see highlight of Paris Art Week each October, bringing together a tightly curated selection of artists working with installations, still and moving images. A commercial, site-specific architectural exhibition, since its founding in 2022 by Artistic Director Julien Frydman, OFFSCREEN has become an important nexus for building the contemporary conversation, institutional support and the market in this field. OFFSCREEN is open through October 25th.

OFFSCREEN CURATORIAL PRIZE 2026 | SARAH BRAHIM (Albion Jeune)
In Search of an Honest Map (2025)
Digital Short Film, Black and White, 6.08 minstolen

In Search of an Honest Map (2025) unfolds through an extended gesture in the Saudi desert. As Sarah Brahim walks, dragging her foot across the ground, the movement of her body becomes a line. The desert becomes at once surface, scale, and duration: a space to be crossed, touched, and inscribed. The resulting trace exists only temporarily, erased by wind, movement, and time. Mapping becomes a bodily act — a way of measuring distance through effort and presence. The work searches for a form of orientation grounded in physical experience, where the body comes to remember the landscape through the trace of its passage. Seen from afar, the body becomes a small figure within an immense terrain, while the line it produces remains fragile and impermanent. The work asks what kind of map might emerge from inhabiting a place rather than observing it from above. The piece was commissioned as part of a two-year research project under Villa Hegra, along with films, and performance in the desert of Al Ula.

Sarah Brahim is a visual and performance artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the body as a site of memory, transformation, and connection. She trained from a young age at San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and the London Contemporary Dance School and later studied medicine. She examines how bodily gestures create a language to express grief, metamorphosis, the unseen, and our relationship with the natural world, and reflects on embodiment and cycles of social, spatial, and spiritual connection.

Recipient of the 2025–26 Pina Bausch Foundation Fellowship and appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2024, Brahim was also awarded the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship in 2023 following her residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in New York. She was shortlisted for the Richard Mille Art Prize 2023 and exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. She undertook a residency at Lafayette Anticipations in 2025. Her work has been presented at the Saudi Arabian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), La Biennale de Lyon (2022), and her 8-channel film was commissioned for the inaugural Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2022). She has been commissioned and took part of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy, and her work is held in the collection of Fondazione In Between Art Film.

SPECIAL MENTION | ANDREA GEYER (Zander Gallery)

Feeding the Ghosts (2019)
Installation, sound (60 min.), variable dimensionsstolen

"You cannot uninvite the ghosts." Slide projectors sit on stacks of books, surrounding two writing tables holding a lamp, a teapot and a cup. Directed outward, the projectors cast blank frames of light of different hues. The sixty-minute, looped voice-over is inspired by Chantal Akerman's "A Family in Brussels," a live performance staged in New York in the Fall of 2001. Geyer, a young artist in attendance, was deeply impacted by the work. Like Akerman's original text, Geyer's voice-over shifts subject positions throughout the narration between the narrative's protagonists, to Akerman, and to Geyer herself, weaving their experiences across time into each other. Geyer works from Akerman's original performance text, as well as interviews with the late artist and her writings on family, history, and memory, and adds her own writing on similar topics. The text is both an homage to the original work and takes it as a directive to think cross-generationally. The voice-over layers the predecessor over the present-day artist, reviving repressed histories they each address in their work. A liminal space is opened between the personal and the political, between presence and absence. For OFFSCREEN, Geyer reconceived the work as a site-specific installation within the archive architecture of Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salp�tri�re.

Andrea Geyer is a New York-based artist who maintains a cross-disciplinary, research-based practice encompassing photography, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages the material poetics of storytelling as both method and inquiry and examines socially, culturally, and historically significant individuals, events, and sites. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018), Creative Time Global Residency (2013), Museum of Modern Art Research Fellowship (2011–12), and Art Matters / Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (2007). Selected institutional solo exhibitions include Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2019); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2025); Museu de Arte de S�o Paulo (MASP) (2024); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Tate Modern, London (2010); S�o Paulo Biennial (2010); and documenta 12, Kassel (2007). Her works are held in collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; P�rez Art Museum Miami; Neue Galerie, Kassel; and the Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, among others.