El Espacio Aparte

Artist in the Installation View Let's be honest. When I first encountered Ebenezer Christian 's work, I was not sure what to think. Masks assembled from scrap metal, mining debris, broken equipment, the waste of destruction that he has been collecting while the rest of us have looked the other way. It seemed almost too obvious, too on the nose, as if the artist were pointing at what we all already know. But I kept returning to those pieces, again and again, and something about them would not leave me alone. And that is what his artistic practice does. It does not let you off the hook. It forces you to keep looking, to feel the weight of what you have been avoiding. Christian Ebenezer is interested in readymades . He always has been. The found object, the discarded thing, the piece of our world that we have stopped seeing because it has already become part of the landscape. But her...