1994 Caracas, Venezuela. Lives and works in London.
Benshimol’s practice arises from the navigation into interiority and intimacy, dazzled by the materiality of the everyday and the routines that hold it. She perceives and analyzes the body as a mysterious container and reconsiders the conceptual transcendence of the permeability and porosity of our flesh, ruled by the rawness of the autonomic bodily reactions that uncontrollably erupt: sweating, blushing, trembling. Throughout the process of making sculptures and installations, she explores places beyond the boundaries of language and matter, seduced by the visceral essence of the uncontained and the blocked. Intimate gestures that are frozen in time act as oddly familiar vehicles that penetrate the tensions of an emulsive realm between the pure and the impure, the dirty and the clean, the real and the fiction. Inviting the viewer to reconsider the uncontrollability of the body and the self, questioning its containing structures and boundaries. Seemingly, as solidified layers that are simultaneously within us and surrounded by us.
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Portfolio upon request
2021 Ecdisis, duo project with Antonio Menchen, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2021 El Dormitorio, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, CCCC Centro del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia, Spain
2018-2020 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2017 Modern Aesthetics (Continuing Education), SVA, New York, US
2012-2016 BA Visual Arts (Cum Laude), Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milan, Italy
2010 Summer pre-college program, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, US
2017 I Know You Are Collecting a Lot of Light with Ugo Martinez Lázaro, Estudio Beneficencia, Madrid, Spain
2016 Calne, Window Project, curated by Federico Luger, Spazio 22 Milan, Italy
2016 EXOTIC EMBASSY with Mati Jhurry, Spazio /77, Milan, Italy
2016 EXOTIC AWARDS with Mati Jhurry, Studi Festival 2, Spazio /77, Milan, Italy
2021 Reconfigured, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
2021 Claro del Bosque, Intersticio, Madrid, Spain
2020 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2020 London Grads Now, curated by Januario Jano, Saatchi Gallery, London UK
2020 Edén, curated by Casa Antillón, Casa de Campo, Madrid, Spain
2020 Un gesto que permanece, curated by Vera Martin, Salón, Madrid, Spain
2020 Heterotopia, curated by Felice Moramarco, Oen gallery, Kabelvåg, Norway
2020 Pou sou nefko peu paeis, Korai project space, Nicosia, Cyprus
2019 The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived, the one that wasn’t invited, SB34-The Pool, Brussels BE
2019 SOLO SHOW, curated by Casa Antillón, Casabanchel, Madrid, Spain
2019 Interim Show MFA Goldsmiths, Deptford studios, London, UK
2019 Ni sí, ni no; ni blanco, ni negro, curated by Archipiélago, Madrid, Spain
2019 Long Live The New Flesh, The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
2019 Mater Matter, curated by Valeria Biamonti, Via San Primo 4, Milan, Italy
2019 Baldea, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, Calle Islas Británicas 5 Madrid, Spain
2019 Casa Antillón, curated by Casa Antillón, Madrid, Spain
2018 Archipiélago, Former British Embassy in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2017 Mediterranea 17 Biennale – EXOTIC EMBASSY with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2016 Como era gostoso o meu francês, curated by Marlon de Azambuja and Maya Saravia, Espacio OTR, Madrid, Spain
2016 Atelier Solar, Espacio Trapézio, Madrid, Spain
2016 Avviso di Garanzia, Fuori Uso, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Pescara, Italy
2015 Theatre of Learning, Reinterpretation of Waltz by Joan Jonas in collaboration with Mati Jhurry, curated by Marco Scotini, NABA, Milan, Italy
2020 Selected artist VIA Arts Prize 2020 Finalists’ Exhibition
2020 Residency at The New Artist, online platform, London, UK
2017 Sculpture summer residency, SVA, New York, USA
2017 Honour Mention at Mediterranea 17 Biennale – with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2017 Residency at HANGAR Centro de Investigacão Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Residency at Affect at Agora (Conglomerate), Berlin, Germany
2016 Residency at Spazio /77, Milan, Italy
2015 Selected artist at Showcase Villaggio d’Artista, Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
2018-2019 Archipiélago – with Amalia Aranguren, Rodrigo Camino and Esther Merinero.