Ben Zamora's installation MYTH triggers a variety of instinctive associations. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines light up in a fixed grid and change in a rhythm that starts slowly but gradually becomes faster and faster.The lines continuously form new compositions, a system of words and punctuation - are you looking at cuneiforms, hieroglyphs or graffiti? Zamora appeals to our deeply anchored tendency to instantly recognise language. Our human need to express ourselves in writing is ancient and universal: it enabled us to keep records, transfer messages, and record stories. It arranged our actions and our history. With MYTH, Zamora tells a story, a myth about other indefinite times and worlds. He leaves it to your own interpretation what that story is about and what it means, giving you space for reflection and a moment of rest in the busy city.
Ben Zamora is an American artist, whose work is primarily based in light. Over the last few years, Zamora has developed a body of work that creates a dialogue between the viewer and their environment, while addressing universal themes of life, transformation, and transcendence.
His work focuses on creating experiences that are boldly immersive and intimate, engaging the viewer as an active participant. He has created large-scale installations and sculptures for the Park Avenue Armory in New York, The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Amsterdam Light Festival, Art Basel/Design Miami, Kunsthalle Krems in Austria, The Frye Art Museum, Suyama Space, as well as a number of other galleries, museums, private art collections, and public art projects.Zamora's work moves seamlessly between performance and visual art, where he creates light-based sculptures and art installations for performance-based work, including projects with Kronos Quartet, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Barbican, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His artistic collaborators have included Bill Viola, Gronk, Peter Sellars, Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, architecture firm Olson Kundig Architects, Casey Curren, and Saint Genet.