ARCHIVES

BAM ARCHIVES ( 2015 -  )

OVERTURE

September 12th - November 20, 2024

Based in New Orleans, Benry Fauna is perfectly located to combine his loves of creating powerful imagery and experiencing music. Through portrait photography, he seeks to discover new ways to articulate feelings and illustrate ideas relating to people in his life.

“Traditionally, an overture is the music that plays before a ballet or opera. Often including elements to be heard throughout the production, such as Idescribe the artwork included in this exhibition: selected compositions across my portrait practice.

When I look at the history of portraiture, I find certain an empowerment and sincerity carried throughout its longevity. Within my own work, the studio has provided a space for self reflection and direct expression. Finding awareness in my grief, insecurities, and unmet desires, allowing me to carve out imagery of myself which can conjure understanding, compassion, and self confidence.

I began to collage, reshape, and sculpt portraits as a way to ruminate on the relationship we have with our own image. Every fold of fabric shifts our perspective like a heightened emotion obscuring our reality.”