bio + cvbio Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (b. 1987, Bogotá) uses their art to transform individual witness into collective action. As a person who was separated from their first family for 28 years through a private, transnational adoption process, they co-create spaces that encourage people to express truth to power by working together in shared knowing and practice. 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, and internationally in Montreal, Mexico City, São Paulo, Lima, and La Paz. They are the founder of the exhibition series, Se Aculilló?, co-editor of You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted, fostered, and trafficked people. Lundberg Torres Sánchez is a 2022 Broadway Advocacy Coalition fellow, 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. |  . |