Membrane (2025)
Artist’s book
Rubber, foam, and paint
25 x 18 x 13 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2026.646.1
Their practice focuses on the formal investigation of two forces: thrust, understood as a force that projects the body outwards, and containment, conceived as a force that works inwards, regulating, absorbing and stabilising. Both forces are regarded as complementary dynamics whose friction activates a space of negotiation in which form is produced.
The artist is interested in the strategies of protection found in elements such as motorcycle bodywork, seats and safety barriers, understood as systems that safeguard what is valuable through physical constraints, fastenings or coverings, without relinquishing an aesthetic dimension.
Their work takes shape in the studio as a process of intuitive decision-making and ongoing adjustments, in response to the behaviour of the materials and how they interact.
Benito Piriz (Durango, 1992) graduated in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU (2014) and holds a Master’s degree in Research and Creation in Art (2015). She has presented her work in solo exhibitions at venues such as the Montehermoso Cultural Centre, with the exhibition “Travieso”, and at Sala Rekalde with “Pikete-tuning”, as well as at BilbaoArte, RKE and the Ariz Tower; and in group exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Horcasitas Jauregia, and galleries such as Mäa (Bilbao), Artnueve (Murcia) and La Bibi + Reus City (Palma). They has received first prize at Getxoarte, second prize at Ertibil and third prize at the La Rioja Young Art Exhibition. Notable residencies include Babestu at Azkuna Zentroa and the biennial residency at BilbaoArte.