Esta línea es mi arma: Chile

Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020, Santiago de Chile, CL) was a Chilean artist and pioneer of socially engaged art practice. In her work, she questioned the public perception of symbols and social realities. In 1979, Rosenfeld, together with artist Juan Castillo, sociologist Fernando Balcells, writer Diamela Eltit, and poet Raúl Zurita, founded the interdisciplinary, political-artistic collective CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte) to resist the totalitarian regime in Chile. CADA carried out actions in Chile and other places in public spaces, involving both civilians and activists and politicians. These actions were used to criticize totalitarian power structures and political injustices. The slogan “NO+” developed by the collective became a symbol of resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship and is still used today. During her lifetime, she exhibited in major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.