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Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the companion publication to the first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld (b. 1943, Santiago; d. 2020, Santiago). It features a conversation between curators Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson, newly translated archival materials, and original essays that contextualize Rosenfeld’s solo practice as well as her collaborations with Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA). Together, these texts elaborate how the artist was a crucial node in a Latin American network that merged activism with poetry.
In her wide-ranging work, Rosenfeld celebrated the imagination as the antidote to systems of control, be they patriarchal, dictatorial, capitalistic, or colonial. Framed through the lens of care, feminist friendship, and solidarity across difference, the exhibition highlights her tactile and conceptual strategies. The show also emphasizes an unprecedented range of materialities used by Rosenfeld—including rarely seen intaglio prints, collages from everyday materials, book covers, and serigraphs with thread. Disobedient Spaces foregrounds her creative and political partnerships, illuminating Rosenfeld’s many alliances with fellow artists and activists.
This book explores how Lotty Rosenfeld circumvented attempts to police thought, behaviors, and language through the ambiguities inherent in art before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies and core faculty in Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. Bryan-Wilson is Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), where she co-organized the major group exhibitions Women’s Histories, Histories of Dance, and Queer Histories. Her show Louise Nevelson: Persistence was an official Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale in 2022, and in 2024 she served as the President of the International Jury of the 60th Venice Biennale.
Natalia Brizuela is Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-curated Contemporary Indigenous Media (2022) with Kathy Geritz at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); The Matter of Photography in the Americas (2018–19) with Jodi Roberts at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and the Houston Center for Photography; and Nuno Ramos: No Sé (El Templo del Sol) (2014) at the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires. Along with Rachel Price and Ian Alan Price she is a co-curator of the online platform “Waldemar Cordeiro: Bits of the Planet” (2024–ongoing).
Foreword and Introduction
Betti Sue-Hertz
Disobedient Spaces: A Curatorial Dialogue about Lotty Rosenfeld
Natalia Brizuela and Julia Byan-Wilson
Bandages, Stitches, and Sutures: Lotty Rosenfeld’s Feminist Materialities
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Tracing Crosses on the Pavement
Lotty Rosenfeld
An Underground Film
Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld
Ties
Carolina Arevalo
My Mother’s Work
Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld
Crossings Along Those Lines
Susana Draper
Sites of Un+Happiness
Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos
Lotty Rosenfeld: Presente
Esther Gabara
Lotty, My Disobedient Friend
Guillermo Geisse
Desolation and Oblivion
Cristóbal Lehyt
Lotty Rosenfeld’s America
Florencia San Martín
Profane Attachments: Lotty Rosenfeld’s Via Crucis
Verónica Tello
Letter to Lotty
Cecilia Vicuna
Plates
Translated Archival Project Proposals from Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld
Life Stories of Marginalized Women
Project Promoting Arts and Culture:
Space for Women’s Artistic Creation
Proposal: Towards a Popular Culture