Will Benedict: Dialogue of the Dogs

Will Benedict uses the institution’s two main floors to present both retrospective works and new productions in the form of paintings, videos, and installations. The artist’s chimeric imagery draws as much from the history of art and literature as from advertising and pop culture. The strange characters that populate his videos are human-animal hybrids: the result is a bizarre alternate reality. Through humor and nonsense, he points to the world we have created and the absurdity on which we constantly feed.

Will Benedict’s work does not seek answers but, on the contrary, asks many questions—about the problem of taking oneself seriously, the fallacy of moral hierarchies, the mess of being ethical, the problem of sincerity, and the value of stupidity. He portrays us as the animals we are but with the generosity of mutual implication.