Benjamin Ossa
Bio
BENJAMIN OSSA
Santiago de Chile, 1984
Visual artist lives and works in Santiago de Chile. His work addresses issues of perception between body and space, the study of phenomena and their displacement to installations that appeal to experience using light as a material and work tool.
His recent individual exhibitions include Bringing home all that glow, Sobering Gallery, Paris France 2023. Tomorrow is better Artespacio Gallery, Santiago Chile 2023. Where our eyes are set Aldo de Sousa Gallery. Buenos Aires Argentina 2021. Position on tension NG Gallery. Panama City, Panama 2019. Something suspended / something MAVI Visual Arts Museum, Santiago Chile 2015. Bordes Distantes Galería Aldo de Sousa Buenos Aires Argentina 2016 and Formas / Borde Galería Tajamar 2011. As well as group exhibitions Un invisible lighthouse XIII Biennial of La Havana, Behind the Wall Project, Havana Cuba 2019. All straight things lie Galerie Sobering, Paris France 2017. Thinking in abstract MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017. Biennial of Media Arts Speaking in tongues National Museum of Fine Arts Santiago de Chile 2015, Rare Occupations Gabriela Mistral Gallery Santiago de Chile 2014, Fisura Museo de Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile 2011. Among her publications are Libro Segundo (Poiesis Ediciones 2019), which is added to her publishing projects Libro Temprano and First Book (Ediciones Daga 2013 and 2016) and his recent publishing project Los papeles son libros Los Sistemas Are Drawings (Poiesis Ediciones 2023). He has public works in the city of Santiago de Chile and Havana Cuba, his work is in public and private collections in Chile and abroad and has recently been published by the Phaidon publishing house and his book Prime Art's Next Generation.
Statement
My work addresses relational and perception dimensions between bodies and space through installations and events that stimulate experiences, using light as a material and work tool. I am attracted to interaction systems, thermodynamic, mathematical and temporal principles. My artistic research addresses the creation of unique experiences through phenomena that move through time and sensory stimuli that activate the
perception, promoting 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 are the cuts, which function at the same time as line and shape, with the property of being projected in any condition, space or support.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
