Sadie Benning at Dia

Sadie Benning’s video “Press Play” is a split screen 28 minute film using drawing. She was in conversation with Lynn Cooke at Dia Friday Sept 14. Benning began by making drawing of images as well as from her imagination and edited these images into a 40 minute video. She collaborated with a sound artist and the pulsating music, coupled with urban noises paces the video. The imagery is for the most part static but the narrative moves along showing glimpses of urban life.