Artist as Ritual Technician
Ben Savizon (b. 1998, Manchester, U.K.) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across sculpture, installation and performance. He interrogates socio-economic and spiritual systems through lived contradiction, treating instability not as a weakness but as a creative catalyst.
Using rugged and unexpected materials such as metal, latex, leather, and found objects, Savizon crafts ritual tools and sonic artefacts, not mere objects. His process marries digital prototyping with hands-on making, with simulation itself becoming both a method and an aesthetic device. In his work, the body is never a showpiece but a contested ground where faith, violence, and survival collide.
As a queer artist of Jamaican descent, Savizon reimagines material culture as a living archive of queer futurity. Rooted in the tension between race, sexuality, and religion, his art insists on the power of ritual, faith, and communal gatherings including raves, protests, and even online spaces as laboratories of survival. The marked body in his hands becomes not a sign of fragility but a crucible of transformation, with the artist acting as both cultural worker and spiritual mediator.
