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 Francisca Benitez, Sukkah, USA 2001, 12'00'' This video project is a portrait of an ephemeral city that appears within the ‘permanent’ city. It was filmed in New York, before, during, and after the annual festivities of Sukkot in October 2000, in the Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Every fall, the neighborhood undertakes a drastic transformation. In order to commemorate the Exodus, a temporary dwelling structure, known as Sukkah, must be built outside the house and inhabited for seven days. This tradition originates the temporary existence of an ancient nomadic settlement, superimposed in the fabric of contemporary New York. Its intermittent continuity on time is ensured by the precise set of codes contained in the Talmud, establishing every aspect involved in the ritual, from construction to behavior. This ephemeral city grows from within the voids of the ‘host’ city. New York’s narrow courtyards, residual spaces, firescapes, rooftops and sidewalks become the grounds for this fragile urban tissue. Born in Santiago, Chile in 1974, Francisca Benitez studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, graduating in 1998. She moved to New York, where she started developing projects that dealt with the adaptation to new urban environments, "trans-culturisation", migration, and the compression of personal/domestic space. She received the Amerigo Marras Fellowship at Storefront for Art & Architecture in 2001. She participated in several screenings and group shows including "Building Codes: The Programmable City", curated by CUP at Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, and "Density" at the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain. |
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