Conversations | Precious Okoyomon | Art Basel Awards

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Precious Okoyomon, poet and artist, New York Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, London In this new series of talks, ‘One-on-ones’, artists and creatives shortlisted for the Art Basel Awards are invited to the Conversations stage for a dynamic deep dive into their work, recent projects, and journeys to this point. Poet and artist Precious Okoyomon, nominated in the Emerging Artist category, speaks to Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director at Serpentine and a jury member for the Art Basel Awards. Precious Okoyomon is a Nigerian-American poet and artist. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life. Okoyomon’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and LUMA Arles. Okoyomon was the recipient of the2021 Frieze Art Fair Artist Award and the 2021 Chanel Next Prize. In 2024, But Did You Die?, their second book of poetry, was co-published by the Serpentine and Wonder Press.&nbsp; Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of Serpentine in London and the senior advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup (The Kitchen Show)’ in 1991, he has curated more than 350 exhibitions. Obrist’s publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), The Extreme Self: Age of You (2021), 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021), Edouard Glissant: Archipelago (2021), James Lovelock: Ever Gaia (2023), Remember to Dream (2023), and Une vie in Progress (2023).&nbsp;

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