Sadie Benning began making videos when she was 15-years old, using a Fisher Price Pixelvision toy camera. Encapsulating both playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning’s floating, close-up camera functions as a witness to her intimate revelations, and as an accomplice in defining her evocative experimental form. Her work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult—with all the honesty, humor, and desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy.
Tue November 19th Closed