In conversation with artist and academic Oliver Benoit

n Conversation with Oliver Benoit
As part of Coreset’s Art Book Fair

Join us for a special in-conversation with Caribbean artist Oliver Benoit, presented in conjunction with his solo exhibition Roots Through Ruins.

This event offers an in-depth look at Benoit’s practice, which explores how histories of colonialism, revolution, and migration persist within material and built environments. Working with pigment, text, and salvaged matter — including crushed brick — Benoit approaches material as both subject and method, treating it as an archive of transnational histories.

Roots Through Ruins situates Grenada within wider networks of exchange, drawing parallels between the island’s colonial architectural history and Britain. Through this lens, brick becomes both a material and conceptual device — a way of understanding how histories are embedded, circulated, and continually reinterpreted.

Rather than presenting architecture as fixed heritage, Benoit’s work positions it as an active field of enquiry. His practice considers how national and cultural identities are constructed through material conditions, and how acts of breaking and rebuilding might open space for new readings of the past.

This exhibition marks the inaugural International Residency awarded by Coreset, an initiative dedicated to fostering dialogue between Caribbean, UK, and international artistic practices.

Free admission.
We look forward to welcoming you to this engaging and thought-provoking discussion.