PLACE(2020)
James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over the course of nine months, Benning traversed the United States in pursuit of traces left by eight so-called ‘outsider artists’.
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James Benning’s PLACE is a multi-part work that deepens the artist’s longstanding engagement with marginalized artists and creators. Over the course of nine months, Benning traversed the United States in pursuit of traces left by eight so-called ‘outsider artists’.
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