TOUCH

2024-2026

COLLECTING EVIDENCE

Touch "2" Primed Canvas 70x70 Cm 2024

Touch "9" Primed Canvas 150x150 Cm

 (Touch Noir) Sylvanès Abbey backyard France 2026 

Touch No. 9 is a groundbreaking new artwork created specifically for the Sistanagila concert at the historic Sylvanès Abbey. This site-specific piece redefines the traditional boundaries between art, music, and architecture through a radical innovation of form and space. Instead of existing as a static object, the sculpture functions as a dynamic, spatial intervention. Its fluid contours echo the sacred geometry and soaring acoustic volumes of the abbey, transforming the physical environment into a shared sensory canvas.

The artwork remains incomplete without human interaction. The viewer invited to step forward, touch the piece, and leave his own physical mark upon its surface. By merging the auditory beauty of Sistanagila's music with the tactile transformation of Touch No. 9, the audience directly participates in shaping the final form of the work within this ancient, spiritual space. 

Touch "1" Primed Canvas 30x30 Cm 2024

San Rocco Museum Collection IT

Touch "3" Primed Canvas 120x120 Cm 2024 

Studio 2024 

Touch Recorder

The installation consists of a series of large-format canvases stretched over wooden frames and painted with a primer. This choice of material creates a ready-to-absorb substrate, allowing the marks of touch, sweat, and the natural oil of the palm of the hand to accumulate on the surface and become the painting material itself.

The work has its roots in an action in the urban space, taking to the street with a canvas and inviting passersby to direct contact, believing that ‘true dialogue can only exist within touching distance.’ Within the exhibition space, visitors are invited to continue this exploration and apply pressure and friction to the surface of the canvas.

This action creates a physical counter-tension against the elasticity of the canvas, revealing the dynamics between the human body and the resistance of the material, and transforming the touch into an accumulated visual recording.

Touch "4" Primed group of Canvases 120x120 Cm 2024

Touch "5" Primed Canvas 90x90 Cm 2025

Villa Seligmann collection GR

Touch "6" Primed Canvas Cube 2025

MMAE720 Gallery Berlin, GR

Touch "8" Primed Canvas 90x80x30 Cm 2024

San Rocco Museum Collection IT

"Kriah" series Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

"Kriah", a profound immersive works, centered around themes of loss, destruction, and spiritual repair. The concept of Kriah by multidisciplinary artist Ben Chamo transforms the ancient Jewish ritual of tearing one's garment in grief into a generative artistic process that redefines space, form, and innovation. Originating as an immersive response to personal and collective loss, the artwork navigates the physical and emotional architecture of trauma. By physically tearing the canvas, Ben Chamo challenges traditional boundaries of two-dimensional art, allowing light and shadow to interact with the raw fabric, thereby opening up new spatial dimensions.

Kriah is navigating the Lurianic Kabbalistic concept of primordial catastrophe ("breaking of the vessels") to seek contemporary Tikkun (repair).

THE PERFUME GHOSTS PORTRAITS

Villa Seligmann GR Exhibition Résumé