1994 Caracas, Venezuela. Lives and works in London
Benshimol’s practice arises for the process of navigation into interiority. Through sculptures, installations and videos she explores places beyond the limits of language, seduced by the uncontrollability and pure materiality of the process. By exploring her intimate relation with viscerality through personal experiences, she perceives the body as a site, a faraway land or an exotic place and questions its limits and constraints, as a way to cope with the dichotomy inside-outside. Absorbed by the awkwardness of its moments of obstruction and restraint, and the autonomic affects and effects they erupt, she considerates and re-thinks the permeability and porosity of the materiality that we are made of. A fruitful land where uncontrolled and unconscious reactions become a reflection of the possibility of an in-betweenness, where tangibility and affectivity melt together into the dampness of an animate alliance.
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Portfolio upon request
2021 Duo Project with Antonio Menchen, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2021 Re(con)figure—d, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
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
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.