Daniel Benaim
Bio
Daniel Benaim (Caracas, 1975). He studied Graphic Design at the Design Institute of Caracas and at IUESAPAR he took the mention of Mixed Media in 2001. He has participated in various workshops, including Advanced Experimental Photography dictated by the artistic photographer Nelson Garrido, in Caracas, Venezuela in 1996 He began his exhibition activity in 1998. His work investigates the different urban landscapes, breaking them down and achieving timelessness by merging them with another series of images that study nature as elements of life itself, searching for an important ambiguity between them, achieving a graphic synthesis in this dialogue of images using photography as a medium. He currently lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela.
Statement
Since the beginning of his artistic practice, Daniel Benaim has rehearsed a plastic language linked to critical reflection on the behavior of cities, based on the unstable paradoxes that public space reveals. His proposal vindicates the symbolic postcard and the emblematic souvenir that interpret the iconographic universe of each place he travels. The street -territory of sociopolitical and cultural interaction par excellence- is then the susceptible scenario to discover forms, signs and compatible or contradictory codes that recontextualize the disturbing urban drive: a category of photography that suggests the dimension of the theme park and so many other metaphors. constructed through photographic representation intervened by digital montage and image collage.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
