Jane Benson: A Place for Infinite Tuning

This book surveys the landscape of Jane BensonÆs acute, yet lyrical practice, forging a trajectory through the past decade as she splits, fractures and skews archetypal structures into poignant re-assemblies. It is BensonÆs first major monograph, pon the occasion of her survey exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.

Notions of creation and destruction may seem diametrically opposed, but their uneasy, yet generative exchange has re-shaped the face of both art and the world it reflects. With a delicate, but poignant approach to dismantling and rebuilding, Benson has conducted a systematic campaign of deconstruction since the beginning of her career. Seeking to better reflect the multiple facets of the self as well as families separated by war, travel and trade, her amalgams forge a nascent place for renewal, plurality and gathering. This book surveys work from the past fifteen years of BensonÆs practice, discussing installations, video, drawing, sculpture and performances tha