A Thousand Crosses on the Pavement
1979 · 16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)
5:28 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Lotty Rosenfeld
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Video From Latin America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Lotty Rosenfeld was a Chilean conceptual artist and activist whose practice interrogated public space, urban signage, and state control through intervention and documentation. Beginning in the 1970s, she executed site-specific works that appropriated and redirected everyday architectural elements, most notably her series of white line paintings that traced and reframed existing street markings. Her work was inseparable from her political engagement during and after Chile's military dictatorship, using minimal gestures to reveal and contest the ordering systems embedded in the city itself.
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