Jesús Alberto Benítez
Updated — 25/09/2023

Texts

Putting images to the test

By Étienne Hatt — Translated by Jessica Shapiro
Published in "Points of view" of Reseau documents d'artistes, 2019 and artpress, n°473, janvier 2020 (excerpt)

Abstraction and "reality": finding the appropriate sound

By Joana Neves — Translated by John Tittensor
Eessai published in Impulse of Reversibility, Adera Editions, 2015

Surface Disorder

By Anne Bonnin — Translated by John Tittensor
Eessai published in Impulse of Reversibility, Adera Editions, 2015

Statement

2014

I work in a space in which almost everything is likely to become a drawing.

The bidimensional nature of images is confronted to the physical and concrete aspect of a printed sheet of paper. A drawing is the result of an interaction of various tools, as if it were a recording of ephemeral gestures over a surface. The empty sheet of paper is a space that can be shaped by a mark, a fold, a dot. Each image is built through a connection of gestures with concrete space. A photograph or a drawing are objects which are mostly made out immaterial substance, but they are also physical elements, as most other things.
With the wall, images become installation objects. The interaction with a place furthers the spatial questioning that holds into each image. The apparently empty area around each image is invariably filled by real space. The ephemeral aspect of an installation gets confronted with the apparent permanence of prints and drawings.
Images follow a spiral that extends and contracts itself through the interferences between fact and representation.

Texte de Guillaume Hervier-Lanot

Pour l'exposition Vers une hypothèse, Centre d'Art Contemporain Fort du Bruissin, Francheville, 2013

Texte de Florence Ostende

Pour l'exposition Les Prairies, Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, 2012

Tout ce qui n'est pas rien

Par Joana Neves
Pour l'exposition Le centre n'est pas un point, galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, 2012