{"id":4854,"date":"2016-10-13T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:14:54","slug":"francisca-benitez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/francisca-benitez\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisca Benitez"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8013\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4854-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/franciscabenitez.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/franciscabenitez.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/franciscabenitez.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4856\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4856 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?resize=249%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"francisca-benitez-photo-by-garret-linn\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?resize=249%2C300&amp;ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?resize=768%2C924&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?resize=851%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?resize=624%2C751&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez-photo-by-Garret-Linn.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Garret Linn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franciscabenitez.org\/news\/\">Francisca Benitez<\/a>\u00a0 (b.1974) is an interdisciplinary artist, born and raised in Chile, who moved to New York in 1998. Through a variety of mediums, her practice delves into space, politics and language, documenting existing situations or proposing new ones. Notable works include <i>Property Lines,<\/i> a series of brief occupations and ensuing graphite rubbings on paper (New York, 2008); and the videos <i>Sukkah<\/i> (New York, 2001) and <i>Oro Dulce<\/i> (Chile, 2011-2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She graduated as an architect from the Universidad de Chile in 1998, and received a Master in Fine Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 2007. Solo exhibitions include <i>Canto Visual,<\/i> Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, 2013; <i>Oro Dulce,<\/i> Die Ecke, Santiago, 2011; <i>Eigentumsgrenze,<\/i> nadaLokal, Vienna, 2009; <i>Pr\u00f3tesis del Nuevo Exodo,<\/i> Die Ecke, Santiago, 2007; <i>The making of Golden Warriors, <\/i>Medianoche, New York, 2006. Actions and performances worth noting: <i>As you lean on me and I lean on you, we move forward,<\/i> The High Line, New York; <i>Son en Se\u00f1as,<\/i> Centro Wifredo Lam, Bienal de la Habana, Havana, 2015; <i>Alternate Path,<\/i> Storefront for Art &amp; Architecture at Pier 57, New York, 2013; and <i>Through sites of dissent,<\/i> Gasworks, London, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some of her group exhibitions include <i>Uprisings,<\/i> Jeu de Paume, Paris; <i>Much wider than a line,<\/i> SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2016; <i>Mapping Brooklyn,<\/i> Brooklyn Historical Society, New York, 2015; <i>Efem\u00e9rides, <\/i>Museo Hist\u00f3rico Nacional, Santiago, 2014; <i>Thinking and Speaking,<\/i> Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; <i>New Publics, Close Closer,<\/i> Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, 2013; <i>Desire Lines, <\/i>Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, 2012; <i>L\u2019\u0153il sur les rues,<\/i> Parc de la Villette, Paris; <i>The Street Files,<\/i> El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2011; <i>Contaminaciones Contempor\u00e1neas, <\/i>Museu de Arte Contempor\u00e1nea da USP, Sao Paulo, 2010; <i>Reinventing Ritual,<\/i> The Jewish Museum, New York; <i>Turn on, Tune In, Drop out<\/i>, Beijing Biennale, Beijing, 2009; and <i>Occasional Cities, <\/i>Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e1nea de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Book I\u2019m currently reading:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i>Mierle Laderman Ukeles: <a href=\"https:\/\/prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de\/Buch\/Mierle-Laderman-Ukeles\/Patricia-Phillips\/Prestel-com\/e504753.rhd\">Maintenance Art <\/a><\/i>by Patricia C. Phillips, w<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ith contributions from Tom Finkelpearl, Larissa Harris, Lucy Lippard, Laura Raicovich, Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">(Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019 exhibition catalog from her show at the Queens Museum)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For further information &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franciscabenitez.org\/works\/property-lines\/\"><i>Property Lines,<\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0(New York, 2008),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franciscabenitez.org\/works\/sukkah\/\"><i>Sukkah<\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0(New York, 2001) ,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franciscabenitez.org\/works\/oro-dulce\/\"><i>Oro Dulce<\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0(Chile, 2011-2015)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_4857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4857\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4857 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?resize=625%2C631&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"francisca-benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2\" width=\"625\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?resize=1014%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1014w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?resize=768%2C775&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?resize=624%2C630&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?w=1872&amp;ssl=1 1872w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro-dulce_2.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Benitez: Oro Dulce, graphite on wood, 96 x 96 inches, 2011-2013 (performance record)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4858\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4858 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?resize=625%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"francisca-benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?resize=624%2C351&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?w=1872&amp;ssl=1 1872w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Francisca-Benitez_2011_oro_dulce_1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Benitez: Oro Dulce, HD video, color\/sound, 78 min. 2011-2015 (video still)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/franciscabenitez.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listFrancisca Benitez\u00a0 (b.1974) is an interdisciplinary artist, born and raised in Chile, who moved to New York in 1998. 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