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Ben Washington, We’re Being Kept Informed As The Situation Unfolds.
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 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, Washington creates new connections between the objects and their implicit meanings, encouraging new questions to be asked and new readings to be sought. Washington's recent work We're Being Kept Informed as the Situation Unfolds was developed in the city of Amman in Jordan, as part of 'The Utopian Airport Lounge', curated by Juliana Irene Smith. After hunting round the city of Amman with the intention of finding a suitable space for a sculptural intervention, Washington went against his initial intention of...
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