Benjamin Slinger is a Northern-born visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice unravels social, economic, and cultural systems through the lens of semiotics and material histories. Their work engages with the embedded dogma within cultural artefacts, drawing attention to the subtle mechanisms of power and meaning production.

Science fiction and fantasy function not only as aesthetic reference points but as methodological tools, frameworks through which mass culture, the ascendancy of populism, and class stratification in popular media are explored and deconstructed. These speculative genres offer a productive space for reimagining cultural narratives and ideological formations without defaulting to a

clean resolution or didacticism.

Design histories and cultural artefacts are situated as active agents within this inquiry, revealing the ways in which they interface with hegemonic structures and ideological discourses. Rather than treating objects as static, Slinger’s work foregrounds their performativity and the semiotic charge they carry within specific historical and material contexts often in a manner that overloads and drowns an objects immediate presence.

Through sculpture, painting, and writing, Slinger examines the social implications of materiality, exposing biases of both the authorial and institutional that underpin the production and reception of art. Their practice ultimately invites a reconsideration of the cultural logics that shape visibility, value, and authority in the contemporary moment.