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Please remove the inline URLS from the selected exhibitions lists and instead reference them. franciscabenitez.org is a primary source and does not support notability, and either do announcements. You need more coverage like the NY Times article. Flat Out (talk) 04:49, 25 January 2025 (UTC)}}

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{{Short description|Visual artist}}

{{Draft topics|women|visual-arts}}

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{{Infobox artist

| image = Wolfganghershey (talk) 15:32, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

| name = Francisca Benitez

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}}

| birth_place = Santiago, Chile

| education = {{ubl|University of Chile|Hunter College}}

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Francisca Benítez (born 1974) is a Chilean multidisciplinary visual and performance artist. Originally trained as an architect, her art practice explores relations between the logic of public spaces, the politics of community, and the mediation of language. She works in multiple mediums including drawing, video, photography, sculpture, performance and music.

The New York Times in a review by Gia Kourlas stated "Benítez's work is thematically connected by the exploration and delineation of boundaries, both social or spatial."{{cite news |last1=Kourlas |first1=Gia |author-link1=Gia Kourlas |title=Review: The Soundless Gestures of Francisca Benitez's Dance on the High Line |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/arts/dance/review-the-soundless-gestures-of-francisca-benitezs-dance-on-the-high-line.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2015-07-16}}

She has exhibited and performed internationally at venues such as Storefront for Art and Architecture,{{cite web |title=Cabaret Series:The Public is in Bits and Bubbles |url=http://storefrontnews.org/programming/public-bits-bubbles/ |website=Storefront for Art and Architecture}}{{cite web |title=Cabaret Series: On the Ground |url=http://storefrontnews.org/programming/on-the-ground-francisca-benitez/ |website=Storefront for Art and Architecture}} the Whitney Museum{{cite web |title=Readings Under the Cohoba |url=https://whitney.org/events/readings-under-the-cohoba-july-28 |website=Whitney Museum}} the Havana Biennial,{{cite web |title=12th Havana Biennial – "Between The Idea And Experience" – Program Announced. |url=https://biennialfoundation.org/2015/04/12th-havana-biennial-between-the-idea-and-experience-schedule-announced/ |website=Biennial Foundation|date=25 April 2015 }} the Jeu de Paume.{{cite web |title=Uprisings, 2015 |url=https://jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/uprisings-2/ |website=Jeu de Paume Paris}} and the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art.{{cite web |title=Field Work |url=https://mac.uchile.cl/exposiciones/trabajo-de-campo/ |website=Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art}}

Since 2017, she has been a member of the Stop Shopping Choir, an anti-capitalist direct action performance group.{{Cite web|url=https://revbilly.com/stopshopping-choir/|title=The Choir}}

Artistic Practice

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".{{cite web |last1=Benítez |first1=Francisca |title=Communicating Bodies |url=https://terremoto.mx/en/revista/cuerpos-comunicantes/ |website=Terremoto, Issue 15}}

An example of early work was "Property Lines" (2008-2009), a performance work that consisted of the temporary occupation of 76 property lines by the artist on the streets of New York City, documented by creating graphite rubbings of the demarcations embedded in the sidewalks of the city.{{cite web |last1=Benítez |first1=Francisca |title=Property Lines |url=https://franciscabenitez.org/works/property-lines/ |website=FranciscaBenitez.org}}

She has worked with Deaf culture and sign language - inspired by her deaf father's life experiences as well as her direct engagement with problems that deaf communities face in gaining access to their languages.

This body of work has often has taken the form of collaborative workshops involving art institutions and the local deaf culture to highlight the narrative and spatial qualities of sign languages{{cite web |url=https://vimeo.com/370402078 |title=Vimeo|date=November 2019 }}

{{Cite web|url=https://franciscabenitez.org/works/son-en-senas/|title=Son en Señas : Francisca Benítez|website=franciscabenitez.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://franciscabenitez.org/works/canto-visual/|title=Canto Visual : Francisca Benítez|website=franciscabenitez.org}}

Many later works address questions around political and local territorial systems that shape the use and control of water as a resource; often engaging the small rural town of Pichingal located in the commune of Molina, Chile where she grew up as a child.

In 2022 she with her family founded La Vieja Escuela as a rual arts center devoted to reconizing the value of the arts, communal knowledge and working efforts of locals and farmers in the area of Pichingal, Chile.

= Selected Solo Exhibitions =

  • [https://storefront.nyc/program/direct-action-by-francisca-benitez/ Direct Action] Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York City (2023)
  • [https://www.dieecke.cl/exposiciones/2022/riego Riego], Die Ecke Santiago, Chile (2022)
  • [https://www.dieecke.cl/exposicionesbcn/2019/cuerpos-comunicantes Cuerpos Comunicantes], Die Ecke Barcelona, Spain (2019)
  • [http://www.dieecke.cl/en/exposiciones/2016/poemas-concretos Poemas Concretos], Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2016)
  • [https://www.mavi.cl/2012/12/14/canto-visual/ Canto Visual], Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile (2013)
  • [http://www.dieecke.cl/exposiciones/2011/oro-dulce Oro Dulce], Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2011)
  • [https://www.dieecke.cl/exposicionesbcn/2010/w-42-garde-i-est-sukkah Francisca Benítez: 3 Videos], Die Ecke Barcelona, Spain (2010)
  • [https://www.nadalokal.at/?p=4302#more-4302 Eigentumsgrenze], Nada.Lokal, Vienna, Austria (2009)
  • [http://www.dieecke.cl/exposiciones/2007/protesis-del-nuevo-exodo Prótesis del Nuevo Exodo], Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (2007)
  • [http://www.medianoche.us/exhb-benitez.html The making of Golden Warriors], Medianoche, New York, US (2006)

= Selected Group Exhibitions =

  • [https://thekitchen.org/event/in-support In Support], The Kitchen, New York, US (2022)
  • [https://archive-soulevements.jeudepaume.org/ Soulèvements], Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2016)
  • [https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/sitelines-2016/ much wider than a line], SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US (2016)
  • [https://thehighline.org/art/projects/pier-54/ Soliloquy in Signs], Pier 54, New York, US (2014)
  • [https://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2013/thinking-and-speaking Thinking and Speaking], Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)
  • [https://www.elmuseo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ElMuseo_SFiles2011_Rel.pdf The Street Files], El Museo del Barrio, New York, US (2011)

External links

  • [https://franciscabenitez.org/cv/ Artist's Website]
  • [https://terremoto.mx/en/revista/cuerpos-comunicantes/ Communicating Bodies], Terremoto Magazine, 2019
  • [https://viejaescuela.info Vieja Escuela] a rural culture & arts center in Pichingal, Chile

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