We are delighted to announce Louis-Philippe Savard as the winner of the 15th annual C New Critics Award!

Savard impressed the jury with his review of "The Traces That Remain" at MAI (Montreal, art interculturels), which was curated by eunice bélidor and featured the work of Po B. K. Lomami, Zinnia Naqvi, Shaya Ishaq, and Lan “Florence” Yee. His piece carefully considers the moment of encounter between exhibited works and their publics, with respect to subjectivity and the politics of the archive, and we look forward to publishing it in C159 Mirror Mirror (Winter 2025).

We would also like to congratulate Lins Demchuk on being named this year's runner up for her review of Audie Murray's exhibition, "To Make Smoke," at The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina. The jury noted that her piece also functioned as a meta-commentary on the genre of the exhibition review itself. Demchuk offered a generative critique of the interpretive contexts within which the category known as "Indigenous art" is engaged, without losing sight of the exhibition itself.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's award! We are also very greatful to Nadia Kurd and Alice Ming Wai Jim, who adjudicated this year's award alongside C Magazine's Associate Editor, Maandeeq Mohamed.

Louis-Philippe Savard is an art history master’s student at Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal), where he also received his bachelor’s degree. His thesis project, for which he received a SSHRC scholarship, investigates the relationship between performance art and its documentation, with the aim to historicize and understand the interplay between political art, embodiment, archival memory, and political discourses in the body of work of contemporary artists. His research interests also include architecture and spaces, politics, installation art, museums, and visual culture. Louis-Philippe is interested in theoretical, historical, and philosophical approaches to artistic practices challenging the dominant conceptions of art making.

Lins is a master’s student at University of Regina, studying Art History and Curation. Her research interests include public art, particularly outdoor sculpture; prairie regional art history; urban/rural and regional/cosmopolitan divides; and consumer behaviour. Much of her life has been spent on Treaty 4 territory, where she currently resides with two dogs, four cats, and an endlessly patient spouse.