Lotty Rosenfeld

Carlota Eugenia Rosenfeld Villarreal (better known as Lotty Rosenfeld, born 1943 in Santiago, Chile) is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist based in Santiago de Chile. Rosenfeld carries out public art interventions in urban areas, often manipulating traffic signs in order to challenge viewers to rethink notions of public space and political agency.

Rosenfeld is associated with Neo-vanguardism and the Escena de Avanzada, a movement of artists and writers that appeared on the Chilean art scene after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. She is one of the founding members of CADA Group, a collective activist and artist group that used interventions and performance to challenge the Pinochet regime in Chile throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She has also been involved with Fluxus, an experimental international interdisciplinary group related to visual arts, music, and literature.

Major works

Rosenfeld is best known for a her art action entitled Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement).^[1]

A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement (1979)

A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement began in Santiago, Chile, in 1979. The action consists of transforming the painted lines that divide streets into crosses with a perpendicular axis made of white tape. Rosenfeld uses straight lines on the pavement as a metaphor for the tightly held control of the Pinochet regime. By altering these often-used markings, she transgresses this subsystem of control and confronts the public with an unexpected subversion of meaning. She converts a minus sign into a plus, challenging the idea that signs are fixed, static markings of meaning.^[2]

References

External links

• The artist's website
• The Chilean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The Pavilion was curated by Nelly Richard and included work by Lotty Rosenfeld and Paz Errázuriz.