Kader Attia wins France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize

The artist Kader Attia, who was born in Paris to Algerian parents, has won the 35,000 Marcel Duchamp PrizeFrances answer to the UKs Turner Prize, organised by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art and the Centre Pompidou. "Art sometimes possesses the talent of divinationthe capacity to pick up on vibrations in a world in mutation. Kader Attia's work has this fascinating power," says Serge Lasvignes, the Pompidou's president.For the first time, the work of all four shortl