450 W 42
Title: 450 W 42
Year: 2006
Measures: Variables
Technique: Video MiniDV (color, no sound)
Duration: 13'33"
Edition: ⅕
Directed and edited by Francisca Benitez, camera by Martin Murphy
This work was part of the exhibition REAL ESTATE MY-OPPORTUNITIES (Real Estate: a Missed Opportunity), in the gallery of Times Square from Hunter College, conducted within the framework of the thesis of the same name in the Master's program in Fine Arts from Hunter College, completed by the artist. From the window of the workshop of Benitez, the buildings collapsed under the power of the retro-excavators: a theatre, apartment buildings, a public building. Subsequently, a desert is born carefully delimited steps from Times Square. 450 W 42, this landscape is revealed through the steps of the artist, who, in an illegal way, penetrates into the interior of the ground, sliding under the grate while the camera follows its path. Throughout the video, we can see that the artist has to walk through this geography, it crosses by a lagoon and found with a plant tomatoes, which harvest the fruit.



