Night Gallery is pleased to host a reading and a reaching by Cara Benedetto this Saturday, January 9th, at 1pm PST. Benedetto will read from her new book, 'Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation,' published by Night Gallery in November 2020. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the artist. 'Origin Of Love and Other Tales of Degradation' serves as a stage for further intra-actions including collective writing workshops, an interactive website, and this upcoming reading/reaching. Benedetto has worked in the expanded book field since her first solo show 'Breaking Waves – How Fake Stakes Ate the Cake' at Taxter & Spengemann (New York, 2011) where she self-published 20 shrink-wrapped books, each based on a relationship to one other person. Throughout the course of the show, Benedetto invited people to unwrap and read from their book highlighting an economy based on relationships rather than a static object. Benedetto states, “The book form is a bound structure that allows for characters and participants to explore how they are bound up in one another and their own desire." 'Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation' is a Night Gallery publication. The book was designed by nicole killian. Copyright Cara Benedetto, 2020. The book is available in print and digital editions from Night Gallery. It can be previewed on the Night Gallery website. Cara Benedetto (b. 1979, Wausau, Wisconsin) has presented solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and Chapter NY, New York. She has presented performances at NAVEL, Los Angeles; the Cressman Center for the Visual Arts, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY; and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland. Her work was recently included in the group exhibition Time is Thirsty at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, and her work has also been highlighted in exhibitions at the Hite Institute, Louisville, KY; MOCA, Cleveland; and Metro Pictures, New York, among others. She was a 2014 fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. She was a 2014 recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She is the author of two romance novels, 'The Coming of Age' and 'Burning Blue.' She is the editor of Contemporary Print Handbook, published with Halmos. Benedetto is an Assistant Professor in Print Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Richmond, VA. Zoom conference link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81916242362#success To request a reminder email on the day of the event, please email jack@nightgallery.ca.