Precariously balanced on tables and mirrors, Benson’s hybrid instruments stir uneasiness in the viewer as their off-kilter nature suggests perpetual turmoil. In a sister work shredded flags combine all the emblems of the countries where the brothers’ immediate family live. Along with drawings made by repeated turns of her half-instruments, charcoal self-portraits made by blindly rubbing her own body and a series of incised texts that transform book pages into musical scales, Benson cobbles fertile new forms from the fractures of old.
FAMILY PORTAITS & A PLACE FOR INFINITE TUNING installation
Courtesy of the Artist and LMAK Gallery, New York
Family Portrait V, 2015
Hand shredded and woven flags
65 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and LMAK Gallery, New York