Gabriela
Benitez
aka. Gabi, Installation/Print media
“Bundled Dwelling/Equipajes Inhabitados brings objects of domestic life and thought on migration, home and self, together in assemblages derived from performance-based installations that seek to connect and re-connect elements within. In their making (bundling, entangling the kitchen table object/s) and materiality, these assemblages locate the process of making and re-making ‘home’ for me as a migrant, and thereby elicit and re-work personal and socio-cultural conceptions, assumptions and memories about my (and perhaps also other’s) home and self territories.”
Gabi Benitez is an Argentinian-Canadian artist based in Cantley, Quebec and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.The focus of her MFA research is on dwelling and space-making. This work is influenced by her experience as an immigrant in Canada. In particular, processes of adjustment and re-invention through the materiality we inhabit underlie her most recent installation work. Her interest in 'thinking through making' was stirred through earlier studio practice/explorations while she simultaneously taught and worked with students at various learning levels; as well as by her first MA research in education for the arts. She worked as a Studio Art Technologist with BFA students at Algoma University (Sault Ste. Marie, ON) for several years.
OCAD U - Graduate Studies
Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes and MFA)
Major Completed, 2020
Laurentian University
MA Interdiciplinary Humanities
Major Completed, 2007
Art Education Printmedia
2019, Living With Things (year IAMD exhibition)
Open Space Gallery, Toronto
2018, CO-(OCAD CPP and IAMD group show)
OCAD Graduate Gallery
2014, En plain air and beyond
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON