benandsebastian are showing their new exhibition, ‘Following the Museum’, at Die Raum in Berlin until the 9th of June, 2013.
benandsebastian’s ongoing Phantom Limbs exhibition project has been on view during the course of the last year at Trapholt Museum of Contemporary Art following the initial show at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen.
DAMn°: “I detect an invisible presence hovering between the individual meanings and histories of each piece – your own or those of the museums’ collections. Would you also describe this ephemeral linkage as a work of its own?”
benandsebastian: “Absolutely. We see Phantom Limbs both as a single work and as a series of fragments. The Phantom Limbs exhibition creates its own ghost network of implied absences. We see these absences as having the capacity to link things together. When someone loses an arm or a leg, it is the continuation of sensation in that amputated limb that allows the body to accept and employ a prosthetic limb as part of itself. We’re fascinated by this capacity for absences to create dynamic connections and these are at the core of the exhibition.”
benandsebastian have received an honorary award from the Niels Wessel Bagge foundation. The award ceremony was held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on the 27th of November 2012.
