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Sadie Benning
05.29.98 - 06.14.98
Exhibition — Maison Saint-James
Sadie Benning, A Place Called Lovely, 1991
Vidéo 14mn
courtesy bdv, Paris
Born in 1973 in Madison (USA), he lives in Chicago (USA).
At the age of sixteen, Sadie Benning began filming herself with a toy camera in her cramped teenage bedroom. She elaborates a filmed diary, woven of short fictions, most often amorous, shows a fragmented and ambiguous personality, which allows us to glimpse a furtive portrait of America, its stereotypes, its anguish, ...