WGW

Cara Benedetto’s WGW examines the construction of white victimhood in media. A series of psychotically fangirled prints combine images of popular US actors playing UK royals – Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth – with text describing the ontology of White Girl Wasted. The voices shift from someone who finds vindication, liberation, and joy in their debasement to apathetic or awkwardly analytic. Yr hair is on fire. White suburban women voted Trump into office in 2016. With a similar premise looming, Benedetto asks with urgency, why are white women so eager to self-destruct? Do you...

Cara Benedetto (b. 1979, Wausau, Wisconsin, US) lives and works in Richmond, Virigina, US. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Benedetto has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit; Art Metropole, Toronto; and Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles; among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions...

Cara Benedetto (b. 1979, Wausau, Wisconsin, US) lives and works in Richmond, Virigina, US. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Benedetto has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit; Art Metropole, Toronto; and Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles; among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; the Hite Art Institute, Louisville; The Pit, Los Angeles; The Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona; The Jewish Museum, New York; Art in General, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto; and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; among others. Benedetto is the author of two romance novels, The Coming of Age and Burning Blue, and is the editor of Contemporary Print Handbook, published with Halmos. In 2020, Benedetto published her first collection of short stories, Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation. WGW is Benedetto's first solo exhibition in the UK.