Lotty Rosenfeld

Lotty Rosenfeld

Nacimiento : 1943-06-20, Santiago, Chile

Muerte : 2020-07-24

Historia

Lotty Rosenfeld was a Chilean visual artist recognized for her career in the vanguard scene, which emerged in Chile after the military coup of 1973; her works have been characterized by calls for resistance and questioning of political authority. She was one of the founding members of the Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), an interdisciplinary group that managed various interventions during the Chilean dictatorship. She was born in Santiago and after graduating from the School of Applied Arts at the Universidad de Chile, Rosenfeld began to explore video art, intervention, performance and video installation among others. In 1979 she founded CADA with visual artist Juan Castillo, poet Raúl Zurita, writer Diamela Eltit and sociologist Fernando Balcells. They performed in public spaces in the midst of the dictatorship, making historical actions such as "Para no morir de hambre en el arte" (1979); "ay Sudamérica" (1981) and "NO +" (1983); this last phrase became a common language of political protest beyond Chilean borders. Parallel to the work on CADA, Lotty Rosenfeld made one of her most outstanding interventions in 1979 called "A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement", where she traces lines on the street, forming a cross. The intervention not only had an impact on a national level, but the artist replicated it in various international locations, especially those of great political power such as the White House in Washington or the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. She died at the age of 77 from lung cancer in her last years. Among her many other works are "Una herida Americana" (1982), "Cautivos" (1989); and "Moción de Orden" (2002). He has several Altazor awards, and his works are in the Reina Sofia Museum, Spain and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.

Perfil

Lotty Rosenfeld

Películas

Hoy y no mañana
Self
Durante la dictadura chilena surge un excepcional grupo de mujeres que dejará un legado único en la historia. Es el movimiento “Mujeres por la Vida”. Figuras femeninas casi olvidadas que en tiempos de dictadura militar, cuando pocos se atrevían a salir a la calle, se organizan convocando cada vez a miles de mujeres que con valentía logran hacer acciones de arte y actos relámpagos e inéditos para la época.
La guerra de Arauco
Director
Video installation that shows the historical disagreement between the indigenous world -the Mapuche ethnicity- and the Chilean hegemony. Differences that seem unavoidable. A cultural and political war that has lasted for more than five centuries.
¿Quién viene con Nelson Torres?
Director
Video projection that refers to the various ways in which language operates and its learning as a discipline, in order to achieve a functional and docile individual. Working on it a visuality that puts in scene diverse social subjects, a nudist dancer, a deaf mute, popular Latin American uprisings, the testimony of the mother of a drug addict and the practice of obstetric ultrasounds. The visuality worked on in this piece is insistently intervened by voices that mortify the subject on stage, giving reading to corresponding texts a free version of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, based on a fragment of the work Kaspar by Peter Handke.
Chile: Historia del Sufragio femenino (1889-1949)
Producer
Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp protagonist of her time.
Chile: Historia del Sufragio femenino (1889-1949)
Director
Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp protagonist of her time.
Chile: Historia del Sufragio femenino (1889-1949)
Editor
Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp protagonist of her time.
El Padre Mío
Camera Operator
El Padre Mío parece ser el representante de una nacionalidad degradada en un universo absolutamente masculino. La figura paterna, sobre la cual la cultura construye imaginarios de certeza, seguridad, integridad, es aquí el elemento generador de una atmósfera de fragmentación, corrupción y violencia, más bien desestabilizador del discurso oficial de la nación.
El Padre Mío
Director
El Padre Mío parece ser el representante de una nacionalidad degradada en un universo absolutamente masculino. La figura paterna, sobre la cual la cultura construye imaginarios de certeza, seguridad, integridad, es aquí el elemento generador de una atmósfera de fragmentación, corrupción y violencia, más bien desestabilizador del discurso oficial de la nación.
Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento
Director
The artist's voice-over saying "No, I wasn't happy" marks the beginning of the video-recording of this, her first art action, which consisted in the intervention to a traffic sign along a mile, specifically on Manquehue Street, in Santiago de Chile. A fundamental work within the history of 20th century Chilean art.
Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento
Self
The artist's voice-over saying "No, I wasn't happy" marks the beginning of the video-recording of this, her first art action, which consisted in the intervention to a traffic sign along a mile, specifically on Manquehue Street, in Santiago de Chile. A fundamental work within the history of 20th century Chilean art.