# Sadie Benning: This is Real

URL: https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/sadie-benning-this-is-real/
January 9 — February 20, 2021 · Gallery I · Artists: Sadie Benning

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present *This Is Real*, an exhibition of fourteen new paintings by Sadie Benning.

*This Is Real*explores the directness and immediacy of small scale drawings, ultimately expanding the original size and formations into larger scale constructions which reflect on themes of identity and transformation. Hovering between representation and abstraction, the fragmented surfaces emote the presence of the hand—a physical body and its imprints—while the shapes, colors and content suggest the space of the mind, complicating the interplay between internal and external realities. Benning ruminates: asking us to further question how reality is constructed, manipulated and controlled—and how binary structures are used to do so.