has been working in Lyon since 1989, collaborating with galleries and participating in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad
Exhibitions 2018: FRANCE Paris, Saint Etienne, Lyon, Bages, Dunkirk - SPAIN Barcelona, Cadaqués - CANADA Kelowna, Sainte-Marie, Granville Island - ENGLAND Wingfield - BULGARIA Sofia, Kazanlak - CROATIA Bakar, Rijeka - SERBIA Milanovac - NETHERLANDS Hengelo
My approach is to use the exhibition space as an element of work, and to offer specific installations in relation to the place. I understand as a whole, my creation, the exhibition space, and the materials I choose to work on. My work is based on the material and the series. The materials have their own existence, I appropriate them and force them to serve my plastic language in an endless repetition of the series. The variation of the possible in the obsession with number and series structures my work. It is working around a concept, a theme and a space that supports my research. The constraint of offering coherent work linking these three axes requires me to explore my subject more deeply.
These series constitute monumental, modular sets that respond to each other and that I install in the exhibition space.
1 Benhamou_2018_Tous des oiseaux
Title : Tous des oiseaux
Date : 2018
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Format: 1.90 x 1.80 m
2_Benhamou_2016_Carnier de misère
Title : Carnier de misère
Date : 2016
Technique: Acrylic on canvas bag
Format : 2 x 1,25 m
3_Benhamou_2016_Paysages des lambeaux
Title : Paysages des lambeaux
Date : 2016
Technique: installation, series of 30, acrylic on burlap
Format : 1,25 x 1,10 m
4_Benhamou_2016_La fillette et l’enfant
Title : La fillette et l’enfant
Date : 2012, Installation, Carré d’Art, Nimes
Technique: inks, white material paper, crystal paper, tissue paper and tracing paper, old stamps printed in watermark
Format : 22 m x 0,65 m
5_Benhamou_2016_La fillette et l’enfant_detail
Title : La fillette et l’enfant
Date : 2012, Installation, Carré d’Art, Nimes, détail
Technique: inks, white material paper, crystal paper, tissue paper and tracing paper, old stamps printed in watermark
Format : 22 m x 0,65 m
6_Benhamou_2016_Fluxum Tempus
Title : Fluxum Tempus
Date : 2011, Installation, Cloitre Saint Louis, Avignon
Technique: Tracing and photographs on glass plates
Format: 5 panels of 2.50 m x 2.50 m
