Benny Nemer

Benny Nemer

51 (1973-09-25)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Benny Nemer is an artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. His multidisciplinary practice approaches a diversity of themes through an evolving ensemble of materials, among them the human voice, floral arranging, epistolary writing, private libraries, and queer archives.

Most Known for...

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I Am a Boyband 2003

A cloned boyband co-opts an Elizabethan madrigal to express its heartbreak over lost love and examine representations of masculinity in contemporary pop music.
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Je Changerais d'Avis 2000

Using the structure and duration of a pop song, artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay comments on the pervasiveness of communication in “the information age” at the turn of this century. The video also acts as a reflection on the virtual reality we experience via innumerable screens today.
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Patriotic 2005

The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video, which scores George W. Bush's notorious Patriotic Act of 2001 to Celine Dion's Love Theme to Titanic.