Exhibition

Sadie Benning. Sleep Rock

19 Apr 2018 – 24 Jun 2018

Regular hours

Thursday
11:00 – 21:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00

Save Event: Sadie Benning. Sleep Rock8

I've seen this

People who have saved this event:

close

Camden Art Centre

London
England, United Kingdom

Address

Travel Information

  • 13
  • Finchley Road, Hampstead
Directions via Google Maps Directions via Citymapper
Event map

Sleep Rock is the first solo exhibition in the UK by New York-based artist Sadie Benning. The exhibition’s title evokes a dream state where perception is blurred by the merging of memory, vision and association.

About

Installed sequentially in the galleries, this new body of work reads with a filmic register – frame by frame – as pictures are apprehended from a distance, or seen in detail close-up. An important operation of scale is brought into play, both in the varying sizes of the panels and in Benning’s use of images. Fragments are enlarged or brought closer, photographs dissolve into painterly abstraction and images remain mutable, reflecting an indexical relationship to the multiplicity of meanings projected onto them.

Sleep Rock includes a series made with a completely new approach to materials: transparencies, analogue photos and digital prints are embedded within layers of resin, enamel and spray paint on wall-based panels. In other works, Benning cuts large panels into pieces, layering the components with aqua-resin before re-assembling them to create works that hover between painting and sculpture. Benning’s approach to images, materials and installation reveals a hybrid approach that actively resists categorisation and fixity. This in-between quality reflects decades of enquiry into the operation and influence of cultural material, beginning with Benning’s earliest video works made in the late 1980s and subsequent explorations in drawing, painting and music production. The process of amassing, recontextualising, editing, sequencing, and destabilising both found and original content continues to propel Benning’s current practice.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Sadie Benning

Comments

Have you been to this event? Share your insights and give it a review below.