Chilean artist Benjamín Ossa takes an expansive approach to the world, letting himself be guided by light in works that appeal to experience. Focusing on issues of perception, time, the relation between body and space, and the study of phenomena and their displacement, his works challenge the limits of categorization. His structures, images, objects, and spaces are paradoxically ephemeral and unstable, subject to tensions and interplays that balance formal precision and intention with the vagaries of chance, fleeting conditions, and subjective interaction. Occupying a zone between reality and perception, where materiality and the imperceptible come together in new manifestations, Ossa’s closely observed constructions and projections create visual and conceptual spaces of exploration that lead us to confront not only our relation to the work, but also our position in the world around us.
María Carolina Baulo: What is the driving force behind your work?
Benjamín Ossa: My work addresses relational and perceptual dimensions between bodies and space through installations and events that stimulate experiences, using light as a material and tool. I am attracted to interactive systems, thermodynamic, mathematical, and temporal principles. . .
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