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Market
sandpaper, cardboard, glue, 2009
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American Swiss
sandpaper, paper, 2009
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Alec Guinnes
cardboard, wood, 100x100x96cm, 2007
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Neoclassical Violence (detail)
paper, gold leaf, fibreglasse, acrylic paint, wood, string, 2007
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Neoclassical Violence
paper, gold leaf, fibreglass, acrylic paint, wood, string, 210x85x85cm, 2007
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Michigan Handshake
metal, carboard, string, 100x54x55cm, 2008
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Untitled With Dr. Pepper
chair, paper, metal, sandpaper, wood, 2008
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The Lamentations of Ur
fibre glass, paper, cardboard, metal, acrylic paint, 2008
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The Division of A County
wood, paper, electric cable, 300x180x65cm, 2009
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The Private Citizen
wood, metal, paper, gold leaf, 2009
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König der Straße
wood, metal, enamel, dimensions variable, 2010
Installation View, GALERIE DANA CHARKASI, 2010
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König der Straße
wood, metal, enamel, dimensions variable, 2010
Installation view GALERIE DANA CHARKASI, 2010
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Introduction
Ben Washington’s sculptures draw attention to their own physicality, often holding themselves upright through precarious acts of balance, appearing at times to defy physical laws, highlighting those laws and as a result intensifying the viewers’ relationship to the object and the space that they both occupy.
Washington’s work explores the intersection between space as it exists, as it is imagined and as it is experienced. It pulls together narratives of representation, drawing from sources as diverse as historical landscape art, to modes of architecture, to the constructed world of computer games and virtual reality. By clashing these narratives and visual languages together, he creates new connections between the objects and their implicit meanings, encouraging new questions to be asked and new readings to be sought.
Biography
Born 198, lives and works in London
Education
2001 - 2004 UK BA 1st class (hons) fine art, Kingston University, London
Selected Exhibitions
2010
‘The Private Citizen‘ GALERIE DANA CHARKASI, Vienna / A
2009
‘Using a sprat to catch a mackerel’ The Old Police Station, Volume, London / GB
‘Coller elective’ Arena studio Gallery, Liverpool / GB
‘Tales from the new world’ Paballon Cuba, Havana / Cuba
‘Contested Ground’ 176/Zabladowicz Collection, London
‘One Step Closer To Grandeur’ Tricycle Gallery, London
‘I have never been to Japan’ Fordham University, New York / U.S.A
2008
‘Space Artists’ Istanbul art fair / TR
‘Simply Paper’ Indus Valley University, Karachi / Pakistan
‘Space Now’ The Triangle, London
‚Artfutures‘ Bloomburg space, London
2007
‚Euro 5 Serie‘ 6a Scawfell Street, London
2006
‘The Garden Projects’ 13a Copleston Road Gallery, London
2005
‘Start My Art’ The Nolia, London
2004
‘Leisure Centre’ 291 Gallery, London
Press and Publications
A-N Magazine, Review, coller-elective, May 2009
Refutation, Online magazine, http://www.refutation.co.uk, May 2009
Havana X, Tenth Havana Bienal Catalogue, Mar 2009
Herald, Newspaper, Nafisa Rizvi, Karachi, Pakistan, Oct 2008
Residencies
2007 ‘Coast’ Triangle Arts, International artist workshop, A foundation, Liverpool
2008 Shatana Artists Workshop, Shatana / Jordan