Aviv Benn @ Pi Artworks

Aviv Benn’s paintings are illusory and delusive, with their imagery echoing a familiar yet alienating feeling.  The exhibition’s title, ‘And the Sky Cast an Eye on This Marvellous Meat’, is a line borrowed from poet Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil collection. The poem describes the perplexity of nature, as well as the human body and life; as they are simultaneously magical and ordinary, beautiful and grotesque, astonishing and miserable.

Benn’s exhibition suggests a metaphorical journey into nature as a sojourn into our psyche. This exploration, like the nature depicted in the paintings, is surreal, bizarre, and even ominous at times.