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"Livia Corona Benjamin investigates architecture as social performance. Recent objects of study include grain silos built throughout rural Mexico from 1965 to 1999 that were abandoned after the NAFTA agreement. Her photographic works oscillate between representation and abstraction, examine colonial legacies, and reflect on tensions between handmade, serial, and industrial modes production. Livia Corona Benjamin’s formally diverse pictures build on her extensive photo-documentary project about the thousands of conical grain silos in rural Mexico. Her Infinite Rewrite series attempts to embody complex history through appropriation and adaptation. While thousands of graneros remain empty to this day, others have been re-appropriated by their communities. They stand as reminders of a now archaic-seeming socialism once promised so much." FRIEZE NEW YORK 2019, Diálogos.

Installation view. Diálogos. Frieze New York.

Tepezalá, 2019
Pigment inkjet print with turquoise, jade, coral, onyx, obsidian, abalone shell, emerald, sapphire, tiger’s eye and animal bone
39 x 31 in
99 x 78.7 cm
Ed.2+1AP

Tierra Generosa, 2019
Pigment inkjet print with turquoise, jade, coral, onyx, obsidian, abalone shell, emerald, sapphire, tiger’s eye and animal bone
39 x 31 in
99 x 78.7 cm
Ed.2+1AP

Zóquitl / Conversion C, 2018 (Diptych)
silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas
50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in
127 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm / 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm
unique piece

Caballos / Conversion C, 2018 (Diptych)
silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas
50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in
127 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm / 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm
unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LX, 2019 (lateral view)
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in / 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.6 cm
unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LX, 2019
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in / 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.6 cm
unique piece

Infinite Rewrite XXXI, 2019 (lateral view)
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in / 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.6 cm
unique piece

Infinite Rewrite XXXI, 2019
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in / 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.6 cm
unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LXIII, 2019 (lateral view)
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in / 26.4 x 21.3 x 3.6 cm
unique piece

Installation view. Diálogos. Frieze New York.

Puerto Rican artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo will be presented in a 2-person booth alongside Corona Benjamin, who also reimagines architectural sites as conceptual frameworks. Livia Corona Benjamin has had solo exhibitions at Parque Galería, Mexico City (2016); Sgorbati Projects, New York (2015); Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2014); and Hartell Gallery, Cornell University (2011). Group exhibitions include Whitney Museum, New York (2018); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2017); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2017). Awards include Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), and three-year grants from Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (2012, 2015).

FRIEZE NEW YORK 2019, Diálogos.

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