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Benjamin Forster

Benjamin  Forster        is  not  .     ( Primavera,  MCA,  12  )      sure  .    ( NEW13,  ACCA,  13  )
was    ( Reading,  Stedelijk,  15  )    perhaps.
(  co-editing  with  rc,  un  magazine,  14  )         o   they  are  .    ( , ,  Firstdraft,  13  )
ACT,  WA, NSW  based   .                           (  Bachelor  of  Visual  Arts  Honours,  ANU,  08  )
a  corpus                                                a  body
or   (Kynic,  CCAS,  13)                      she  will  .                                 (  Residencies:  MCA  13,
SymbioticA  09,  PICA  09,  CIA  12-13,  FAC  11,  Helsinki  14,  etc  )                               no.
he  assures  you.   ( Reading,  De  Appel,  15  )           you                 may
( My  Brain  Is  in  My  Inkstand,  Cranbrook  Art  Museum,  13  )      be                 unsure.
( SafARI,  around  SYD,  14  )   of  acronym       .        of
number  .

Above:
  1. Benjamin Forster, Discourse, 2010. Installation view, Primavera 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Image courtesy MCA, copyright the artist. Photo Alex Davies.

  2. Benjamin Forster, Dysgraphica, 2013. Originally commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for NEW13. Photo Andrew Curtis.

  3. Benjamin Forster, Reading stedelijk.nl, 2015. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam