SIMON BENJAMIN in Film
BCC is proud to be a sponsoring partner for the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Legacy Artist in Residence, Simon Benjamin.
A series of screening programs will support the artist’s exhibition, A BOLT FROM THE BLUE, with a community screening at Wa Na Wari Seattle, and part of the UNION project with Photographic Center NW and Capitol Hill Arts District.
Exhibition is open from Weds April 3rd to April 20th, 2024
Partnered programs begin on April 7th.
All supporting events are in partnership with the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency program, and organized by Guest Curator Berette S Macaulay.
UNION Project
Simon Benjamin’s FORUM IV (2016)
April 7 – May 15
Daily, Dusk-11pm
Woodworth Apartment Building on 10th + Union
In partnership with Photographic Center NW and Capitol Hill Arts District.
Feature
FORUM IV (2016), 2m, 44 s, HD, English
Originally commissioned as a site-specific installation for Negotiated Realities, Columbia University, curated by Daniela Fifi in partnership with The Museum of Impact, 2016.
Add’l Films
Two Score Full Moon, (2019)
1 m, 52 s, HD Video
An ode to entropy on the occasion of a full moon in Jamaica.
AUTODOOR, (2020)
3 m, HD Video
Experimental film comprised of still images and sound, set on a bus in Dakar, Senegal.
Previous Screenings: Ojos Caribe, Homework Gallery, Dec 7th, 2023. Press: C& America Latina
Film stills courtesy of artist.
ABOUT the Artist
Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican multi-disciplinary 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.
His work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally, including Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2023), Baxter St. CCNY, New York NY (2023); documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (2022); Kingston Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2022); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governor’s Island, NY; Third Horizon film Festival, Miami, FL (2022); trinidad+tobago film festival, Trinidad and Tobago (2021); NYU Gallatin at Governors Island, New York, NY (2021); The 92nd St. Y, New York, NY (2020); Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY (2019); the Ghetto Biennial, Port Au Prince, Haiti (2018); Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2017); New Local Space, (NLS) Kingston (2016); and Columbia University, New York, NY (2016).
About the Curator:
Berette S Macaulay is an interdisciplinary artist and writer with creative and cultural practices in photography, mixed media, curating, and art organizing. She is the founder of Black Cinema Collective (BCC) which celebrates African and Afro-Diasporic films, and is a project of the collaborative arts incubator, i•ma•gine | e•volve. She is currently serving as Guest Curator for the 2024 Jacob Lawrence Gallery Legacy Residency Program, its exhibition and supporting engagements.
https://www.berettemacaulay.com
About UNION Project:
The UNION project is a public art project in partnership with Photographic Center NW, SeaLevel Properties and Lumenarius in 2024. UNION will feature artwork projected onto the south facing wall of the Woodworth Apartments building (953 E. Union Street) in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Beginning each night at dusk all year long, neighbors and visitors will witness a 60’ tall projected exhibition of works from local and regional artists.
PARTNERS:
LOCATION
Woodworth Apartments
1225 10th Avenue
Seattle, WA, 98122