| NATALIA BENEDETTI |
Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977, Miami-based video artist
Natalia Benedetti earned a B.F.A. from New World School of the
Arts in 2000. She has exhibited her work at the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., the New
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and at MOCA at
Goldman Warehouse, Miami, where she had a solo show in
2006. The recipient of the 2003 South Florida Cultural
Consortium Fellowship, Benedetti is represented in the Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and in the private Miami collections
of Carlos and Rosa De La Cruz, George Lindemann, and
Dennis and Debra Scholl, among others.
Benedetti’s recent videos are studies of light and space in which
she seeks to capture transcendent moments of perception and
personal enlightenment. Meditative in mood, her close-up, endlessly
looping studies of sunlight reflecting off of water’s moving
surface are, in her words, “metaphors for existence . . . The lights
appear and disappear seemingly without any connection to each
other when in fact they are part of a totality.” Don’t Wake Me,
shot by the artist from an aircraft circling high over Miami, recreates
her visceral experience of moving through space as she
contemplates the notion of infinity.
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