My artistic practice questions the photographic medium by employing alternative and experimental processes, generally slow and unique-print in opposition to society’s acceleration and the multiplication of digital images. I salvage found or donated materials to produce works from elements that lost their initial value, such as expired photographic paper or weeds. I favor long exposure and minimal installations that aim to slow down the lived experience by re-engaging the body – mine and the viewer’s – in space and time, proposing a reembodied relationship with the world that has a resonant potential.
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Benjamin Perron is a Montréal visual artist who works primarily with lensless and camera-less photographic processes. He holds a BA and MA in Sociology (Université Laval) and a BFA – Studio Art (Concordia University) and a MFA (School of Art – University of Manitoba). It is through art that he offers answers to sociological questions on society. His work has been exhibited in Montréal and Winnipeg. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Gabor Szilasi Prize in Studio Arts and the 2022 Alfred Pinsky Medal from Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.