Benjamin Laading

Born in 1982, lives and works in Paris.

Benjamin Laading is interested in the spray paint can as an artistic tool.

This modern tool offers the possibility of taking off from the support towards infinity... The sensitivity of its breath materializes the movement of the body in space, and this spatiality is translated by a density of pigments, ranging from mist to wave. It is the distance between the painter and his support, the speed of his movement, which define the "traits" of his personality.

This tool not only invites us to paint with our bodies, it is also directly linked to a phenomenon of free and spontaneous expression outside of frameworks and conventions.

The change of space from the exterior in its wild state to the interior in the gallery system naturally implies a mutation, a synthesis: deprived of its freedom, in what form can one look at this painting?

Through painting processes inspired by illegal spray, Benjamin Laading highlights the tension that is created between the functional gray area and a sensitive line, and by using this conflict as a plastic material, he proposes a new unity.