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Exhibiton at Waterside Project Space
I Will Eat This Sleepy Town
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.
Ben Washington, We Are Being Kept Informed as the Situation Unfolds, 2010
site-specific installation in Amman, Jordan
Ben Washington, One More Last Breath, 2011
installation in I Will Eat This Sleepy Town, 2011, Waterside Project Space
Ben Washington, Alec Guinness, 2007
cardboard, wood, 100x100x96cm
Ben Washington, Stamina for Sale
Ben Washington, Untitled with Dr Pepper, 2008
hair, paper, metal, sandpaper, wood
Ben Washington, Lunokhod