Risk-Taking Artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar Wins France’s Top Art Prize

Lili Reynaud-Dewar, whose videos, performances, and sculptures have mined the intimate relationship between bodies and politics, has won France’s top art award. The Prix Marcel Duchamp, which comes with €35,000 ($41,000), was given to Reynaud-Dewar at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Monday.
Reynaud-Dewar’s work has often involved the use of her own body, typically in service of statements about the ways that the human form is tethered to largely sociological and ideological deve