About

Heather Benjamin has developed the creatures that have inhabited her works for many years, first in the zines she self-published, then in her studio work regularly presented in galleries. Her women with thick, voluptuous bodies, often adorned with butterfly wings, evolve next to sphinxes with sharp claws in arid panoramas.

The dry and electric atmosphere, in which her hybrid characters exist, accentuate the ambiguity of the feelings that run through them. Heather Benjamin maintains a form of tension between the strength and the fragility that drive them, between the assurance and the doubts …