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Francisca Benitez | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) |
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Francisca Benítez (born 1974) is a Chilean artist who has lived and worked in New York since 1998. Her multidisciplinary practice explores relations between space, politics and language, utilizing different mediums including drawing, video, photography, performance and music. Originally trained as an architect, her work is closely linked to the places where she lives and the communities she is part of and interacts with. She has exhibited and performed internationally at venues such as Storefront for Art and Architecture[1], the Whitney Museum[2], the Havana Biennial [3] in Cuba and the Jeu de Paume[4] in Paris, France. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Stop Shopping Choir, an anti-capitalist direct action performance group[5] and is an active participant in various organizations such as Art Against Displacement (AAD), the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side and Gays Against Guns.
Artistic Practice
Benítez's artwork takes many different forms, some temporary and some more permanent, but are thematically connected by the exploration and delineation of boundaries, whether social or spatial.[6]
Early works were "...documentary-essays in video and photography about ephemeral architectures — temporary occupations of public space created by people and communities as means of survival or ritual use" and has evolved to incorporate performance and direct action through works that subvert established limits and create unexpected areas of coexistence, interaction, friction, and dialogue. For example "Property Lines", a performance that consisted in the temporary occupation of 76 property lines on the streets of New York, documented by creating graphite rubbings of their demarcations embedded in the ground. Exacerbated by Occupy Wall Street and multiple social movements that highlight the importance of public space in democratic processes, "...the body in public space, and the ways in which encounters between bodies and the construction of collective imaginaries happen" has been a focal point of her practice.[7]
More recently, she has produced multiple works about deaf culture and sign language - the physicality of the language naturally extending her career-long study of architectural space - driven in part by her deaf father's experiences as well as the ongoing problems that deaf communities face in gaining access to their languages. Addressing Deaf poetry as a point of departure, Benítez has created spaces of encounter between Deaf and hearing cultures through collaborative performances that highlight the narrative and spatial qualities of sign languages.[8]
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Riego, Die Ecke Santiago, Chile (2022)
- Cuerpos Comunicantes, Die Ecke Barcelona, Spain (2019)
- NEW NOW: Francisca Benítez, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, US (2017)
- Poemas Concretos, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2016)
- Oro Dulce, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, US (2016)
- Canto Visual, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile (2013)
- Oro Dulce, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2011)
- Francisca Benítez: 3 Videos, Die Ecke Barcelona, Spain (2010)
- Eigentumsgrenze, Nada.Lokal, Vienna, Austria (2009)
- Chamber, Lokal.int, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland (2009)
- Prótesis del Nuevo Exodo, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2007)
- The making of Golden Warriors, Medianoche, New York, US (2006)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- In Support, The Kitchen, New York, US (2022)
- Soulèvements, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2016)
- much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US (2016)
- [https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/pier-54/ Soliloquy in Signs, Pier 54, New York, US (2014)
- Thinking and Speaking, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)
- The Street Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, US (2011)
External Links
- Artist's Website
- Artist's Vimeo
- Communicating Bodies, Terremoto Magazine, 2019
References
- ^ "Cabaret Series:The Public is in Bits and Bubbles". Storefront for Art and Architecture.
- ^ "Readings Under the Cohoba". Whitney Museum.
- ^ "12th Havana Biennial – "Between The Idea And Experience" – Program Announced". Biennial Foundation.
- ^ "Uprisings, 2015". Jeu de Paume Paris.
- ^ "The Stop Shopping Choir".
- ^ Kourlas, Gia. "Review: The Soundless Gestures of Francisca Benitez's Dance on the High Line". NYTimes.
- ^ Benítez, Francisca. "Communicating Bodies". Terremoto, Issue 15.
- ^ "Francisca Benitez, "You have given the world your songs"". Kadist.