Will Benedict: New Video and Painting
For his second solo show at the gallery, the artist presents a series of three dimensional abstract paintings, five prints on PVC which Benedict first installed in a park at the 2015 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, two collage paintings, one of which is Spanish and a rotating head in a microwave.
For the past few years Benedict has made videos which feature music by the noise band Wolf Eyes. These works depict vertiginous digital worlds populated by aliens on talk shows, gluttonous beds, and talking dolphins. Through a near religious commitment to television, he subverts the conventions of popular infotainment genres such as music videos, YouTube tutorials, cooking shows, advertising, and talk shows. In this way, he makes us feel what it’s like to live in an infinitely malleable realm, in other words, this is the present.
