“All the artists know we don’t make our art. It comes from within us,” states artist Jana Benitez. “We have the tremendous, humbling, insane privilege of just showing up and having it come through us.” And for the past 24 years, that’s precisely what Benitez has done—dedicating her artistry to exploring the boundless infinity of the human experience.
Take, for example, her recent solo exhibition, Wild Silence, at Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong. Happened in September to November last year, the pieces shown drew from Benitez’s multidisciplinary understanding of our inner worlds—a perspective she’s refined through studies in Buddhism, Taoism, Tantra, Christianity and contemporary psychology. A representation of our rich, latent consciousness, the collection “speaks to the subject matter of embodiment, sensation and somatic awareness that have been central to…
