Benjamín Ossa
Bio
Santiago de Chile, 1984
Visual Artist lives and works in Santiago de Chile. His work addresses problems of perception between the individual and space, the study of phenomena and their movements to installations that appeal to experience using light as a material and work tool. His latest solo exhibitions include "Where our eyes are" Aldo de Sousa Gallery, Buenos Aires Argentina 2021, "Something Suspended / Something" MAVI Visual Arts Museum, Santiago Chile 2015, "There is no way to waste time" Gallery Artespacio, Santiago Chile 2016, "Distant Borders" Aldo de Sousa Gallery Buenos Aires Argentina, "Formas / Borde" at Tajamar Gallery 2011 as well as group exhibitions such as XIII Havana Biennial, Cuba 2019. "All right things lie" Sobering Galerie , Paris France 2017. "Thinking in the abstract" MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires. Argentina 2017. Biennial of Media Arts "Speaking in tongues" National Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago de Chile 2015, Rare Occupations:, Gabriela Mistral Santiago Gallery de Chile 2014, ¨Fisura¨ at the Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum His work has had an outstanding participation in contemporary art fairs, competitions, as well as being in public collections licas as private.
Statement
My work addresses relational and perception dimensions between bodies and space through installations and events that stimulate experiences, using light as a work material and tool. I am attracted to systems of interaction, thermodynamic, mathematical and temporal principles. My artistic investigations address the creation of unique experiences through phenomena that pass through time and sensory stimuli that activate perception, promoting a reflection on what happens in the environment. Drawing is a constant in my work; slowly, it has become a laboratory and background for almost all my projects. Another constant is the cuts, which work as a line and a shape at the same time, with the property of projecting themselves in any condition, space or support.
