Ben Sargent
About
Ben Sargent (b. 1997) is an artist, writer and researcher from Exeter, based in London. His work occupies the blurred space between the digital and physical, utilising virtual space, sculpture, moving image, performance and the written word.
MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice), Royal College of Art, 2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, 2019
Recent performances include: Working Hard, Hardly Working at The Ivy House, London and OneThreeSeven (Live) at Tate Modern, London.
Kenneth Armitage Student Sculpture Award (Shortlisted with commendation), 2019.
Statement
Ben Sargent's work examines our era of increasing digitalisation, exploring how we must re-assess our relationship to thing-ness if we are to attempt to understand our position in a rapidly shifting environment. Exploring how the digital is “a fragment of the real world... a thing just like any other – a thing like you and me.”
Sargent makes use of digitally aided processes such as 3D printing to translate AI designed virtual objects into tactile sculptural forms. Illuding to the archival practices of museums and galleries, he creates installations that interweave text and sculpture, blurring the lines between virtual and physical, artefact and commodity, temporal and other-worldly.
One Three Seven
spiteful in the nicest sense of the word
Performance
