bio + cvbio Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (b. 1987, Bogotá) uses their art & facilitation to transform individual witness into collective action. Their work resists disposability, isolation, ways the state hijacks our individual & collective bodies to fulfill its own performances of power. Lundberg Torres Sánchez’s work has been shown in the U.S. at the Queens Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, The Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, RISD Museum, and the Knockdown Center to name a few. Their work has been presented internationally in Montreal, Mexico City, Santiago de Querétaro, São Paulo, Lima, and La Paz. They are the founder of the performance and exhibition series, Se Aculilló?, co-editor of You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted and fostered people, and were the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2017 and 2018 Merit Fellow in New Genres and Film & Video respectively. statement Collaboration that comes from socializing and building relationships over time is the center of my joy in creative practice. In art-making, education, and organizing I seek ways to transform what individuals can know and witness alone toward collective action together. As a queer person who was separated from my first family for 28 years through a private, transnational adoption process, I desire to co-create and hold spaces that encourage directly impacted people to express truth to power by standing together in shared knowing and practice. This has been a primary way of communicating to myself and others that we are whole and worthy. Holding this truth is what allows us to take action. Performance allows my body to be a site for public encounters that allow temporary communities to think, reflect, respond, and act together. |  . |