Hello,
My name is Denise Maria Padrón Benítez and I’m a multimedia artist and writer, currently based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES.
I move quite freely between media and work with analogue photography, experimental moving image, installations, drawings, ceramics and poetry.
I hold double MA in History of Art and Culture Studies from University of London, with a special interest in photography theory, moving image and artistic self-organisation. I wrote my first MA thesis on the many selves of Eleanor Antin and later on another thesis on artist self-organised spaces.
I’ve been a part of various artist collectives and collaborations over the year. Between 2018 - 2022, did I play the video in the London-based live cinema/live score collective the Loose Association of Cinema and Sound. We were an exercise in improvisation and I created live montage using VDMX together with the sound made by: Patricia Puertas, Xûan Sinden, Bernardo Verela, Lala Padula, Felipe Pitt Campos Peres, Giovana Busato and Manon Schwich, and sometimes friends. The group formed itself around their common interest for cinema, improvisation and experimental narratives. As we played together, I had the chance to go deeper and deeper into the idea of in using dreaming as a form of narrative form to tell non-linear, multi-vocied stories.
Moreover, between 2022-2025 was I working together with the Raccoon Project Tenerife, with whom I organised group exhibitions and art take overs. My curatorial interest forms itself around inclusion, collaboration and the right to space. In 2015/16 did I work together with Zona Dynamic in Berlin, with whom I learnt a lot, and later on used to self-organise exhibitions and activate unused spaces in the city. Generally, I’m interested in artist self-organised spaces and initiatives. In 2018/19 was she a part of the first year of CONDITIONS studio programme in Croydon, a low-cost art studio and artist-to-artist teaching initiative which sought new ways of art education.
Since 2023 have I been working together with sound artist Sébastien Durand on the project Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, which explores the subconscious (dreams), the conscious (persona), and the unconscious (shadows) in a planned triptych of multimedia works. The first chapter, Dreaming of Hephaestus, formed itself though their research on dreaming, migrating memories and mythologies.
We are currently working on the second chapter, PHERSU.net, which is a labyrinth-like website weaving together various aspects of the persona and identity though the lens of online cultures and the digital realm.
My name is Denise Maria Padrón Benítez and I’m a multimedia artist and writer, currently based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES.
I move quite freely between media and work with analogue photography, experimental moving image, installations, drawings, ceramics and poetry.
I hold double MA in History of Art and Culture Studies from University of London, with a special interest in photography theory, moving image and artistic self-organisation. I wrote my first MA thesis on the many selves of Eleanor Antin and later on another thesis on artist self-organised spaces.
I’ve been a part of various artist collectives and collaborations over the year. Between 2018 - 2022, did I play the video in the London-based live cinema/live score collective the Loose Association of Cinema and Sound. We were an exercise in improvisation and I created live montage using VDMX together with the sound made by: Patricia Puertas, Xûan Sinden, Bernardo Verela, Lala Padula, Felipe Pitt Campos Peres, Giovana Busato and Manon Schwich, and sometimes friends. The group formed itself around their common interest for cinema, improvisation and experimental narratives. As we played together, I had the chance to go deeper and deeper into the idea of in using dreaming as a form of narrative form to tell non-linear, multi-vocied stories.
Moreover, between 2022-2025 was I working together with the Raccoon Project Tenerife, with whom I organised group exhibitions and art take overs. My curatorial interest forms itself around inclusion, collaboration and the right to space. In 2015/16 did I work together with Zona Dynamic in Berlin, with whom I learnt a lot, and later on used to self-organise exhibitions and activate unused spaces in the city. Generally, I’m interested in artist self-organised spaces and initiatives. In 2018/19 was she a part of the first year of CONDITIONS studio programme in Croydon, a low-cost art studio and artist-to-artist teaching initiative which sought new ways of art education.
Since 2023 have I been working together with sound artist Sébastien Durand on the project Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, which explores the subconscious (dreams), the conscious (persona), and the unconscious (shadows) in a planned triptych of multimedia works. The first chapter, Dreaming of Hephaestus, formed itself though their research on dreaming, migrating memories and mythologies.
We are currently working on the second chapter, PHERSU.net, which is a labyrinth-like website weaving together various aspects of the persona and identity though the lens of online cultures and the digital realm.