Oil and ink on 120 mm color photograph

Archival pigment print on FineArt cotton paper

40x40 cm

2018-2023

 

 

A collaboration with Artist Les St. Leon.

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This series is the result of visual conversations, which took place in Ben-David and St. Leon’s

transient studios in NYC, and Marseille, over the course of 5 years. It is a reflection on (social)

interaction via the exchange of visual references rather than words.

 

The work, characteristically playful and disorderly, evolve with no definitive beginning or ending, taking shape through continues examination of modern anxieties, and overstimulation in today's eclectic and fragmented realities, while conjuring a state of mind.

 

In their new body of work Ben-David and St. Leon employ juxtaposition by bringing photography and painting into dialogue and exploring the collaborative possibilities between the two mediums, establishing a versatility between cohesion and confusion, disorienting, abstraction and arrangement, which are intimately involved with our social constructions of the world, while experimenting with the overlap between the purely abstract and the representation of narrative.

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