Exhibition Details
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces, the first solo retrospective of Rosenfeld’s practice in the U.S., illuminates her many contributions to critical dialogues about public space, from large-scale video projections to her iconic street intervention One Mile of Crosses on the Pavement (1979), in which she crossed the white directional lines of roads.
The exhibition contextualizes her collaborative work with Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA) as well as her solo endeavors, positioning her as a central hub in a larger network of the Latin American “escena de avanzada” (the advanced scene/avant-garde scene) that merged activism with poetry, creating spaces for creative resistance.
The exhibition also demonstrates Rosenfeld’s influence on younger artists in Chile, as her conceptual rigor and aesthetic subtlety provides a lesson to those seeking tools for how to intervene within dominant systems of power.
The exhibition contextualizes her collaborative work with Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA) as well as her solo endeavors, positioning her as a central hub in a larger network of the Latin American “escena de avanzada” (the advanced scene/avant-garde scene) that merged activism with poetry, creating spaces for creative resistance.
The exhibition also demonstrates Rosenfeld’s influence on younger artists in Chile, as her conceptual rigor and aesthetic subtlety provides a lesson to those seeking tools for how to intervene within dominant systems of power.
Artist Details
One of the most important feminist artists of the 20th century, and one of the best-known within Latin America, Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020) is renowned for her extensive practice with printmaking, video, and site-specific installation. Through these media, Rosenfeld crafted political gestures that contested the militarization of everyday life and revealed the invisible code at the heart of the world’s market-based economies. A Chilean artist, she also worked collaboratively with Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA) during the Pinochet dictatorship of 1973-1990.
Location
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
Image: Lotty Rosenfeld, Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento [One Mile of Crosses on the Pavement], 1979. Art action in front of the Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile, 1979 / courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery

