Description
Yoff Round is a photograph made in Dakar, Senegal, as part of Benjamin’s ongoing research investigating the complicated relationship people of the African diaspora have with the sea.
Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican artist and filmmaker based in New York, whose practice considers how the past ripples into the present in unexpected ways. Using the sea and coastal space as frameworks, his current body of work explores how lesser-known histories and colonial legacies impact our present and contribute to an interconnected future. Benjamin’s work has been exhibited at documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany (2022); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, New York (2022); Kingston Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2017, 2022); Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (2021); NYU Gallatin at Governors Island, New York (2021); The 92nd Street Y, New York (2020); Brooklyn Public Library, New York (2019); Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York (2019); Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (2018); Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2017); Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2019); New Local Space, Kingston (2016); and Columbia University, New York (2016). Benjamin was an Artist-in-Residence at Baxter St. at CCNY in 2022, and has participated in residencies at Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY; and Shandaken Projects and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, both on Governors Island, New York.
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