Hello,
I’m Denise Maria Padrón Benítez, a multimedia artist and writer based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES.
I work across analogue photography, experimental moving image, installations, drawings, ceramics, and poetry.
I hold a double MA in History of Art and Culture Studies from the University of London, focusing on photography theory, moving image, and artistic self-organisation.
My theses explored Eleanor Antin’s many selves and artist self-organised spaces.
I’ve collaborated with various collectives, including the London-based live cinema/sound group the Loose Association of Cinema and Sound (2018–2022),
where I created live montages with VDMX and explored non-linear, multi-voiced storytelling through dreaming.
From 2022–2025, I worked with Raccoon Project Tenerife on exhibitions and art takeovers, centering inclusion, collaboration, and the right to space.
Previously, I collaborated with Zona Dynamic in Berlin and participated in CONDITIONS studio in Croydon (2018–2019),
focusing on low-cost, artist-led education and space activation.
Since 2023, I’ve been working with sound artist Sébastien Durand on Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, a multimedia triptych exploring the subconscious, conscious, and unconscious.
The first chapter, Dreaming of Hephaestus, investigates dreams, migrating memories, and mythologies.
The second chapter about to be released, PHERSU.net, a labyrinthine website examining identity and persona in online and digital culture.
⬛ Research gate
⬛ Substack
⬛ Instagram
⬛ The Loose Association of Cinema and Sound
⬛ Exercitia Spiritualia Animae
⬛ Dreaming of Hephaestus
I’m Denise Maria Padrón Benítez, a multimedia artist and writer based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES.
I work across analogue photography, experimental moving image, installations, drawings, ceramics, and poetry.
I hold a double MA in History of Art and Culture Studies from the University of London, focusing on photography theory, moving image, and artistic self-organisation.
My theses explored Eleanor Antin’s many selves and artist self-organised spaces.
I’ve collaborated with various collectives, including the London-based live cinema/sound group the Loose Association of Cinema and Sound (2018–2022),
where I created live montages with VDMX and explored non-linear, multi-voiced storytelling through dreaming.
From 2022–2025, I worked with Raccoon Project Tenerife on exhibitions and art takeovers, centering inclusion, collaboration, and the right to space.
Previously, I collaborated with Zona Dynamic in Berlin and participated in CONDITIONS studio in Croydon (2018–2019),
focusing on low-cost, artist-led education and space activation.
Since 2023, I’ve been working with sound artist Sébastien Durand on Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, a multimedia triptych exploring the subconscious, conscious, and unconscious.
The first chapter, Dreaming of Hephaestus, investigates dreams, migrating memories, and mythologies.
The second chapter about to be released, PHERSU.net, a labyrinthine website examining identity and persona in online and digital culture.
⬛ Research gate
⬛ Substack
⬛ The Loose Association of Cinema and Sound
⬛ Exercitia Spiritualia Animae
⬛ Dreaming of Hephaestus