Field work marks the birthday number 50 of the artist, Francisca Benitez, and meets several of his most significant works, developed in the last two decades. The title alludes to both the observation and the collection as the work of peasants, and gives an account of the bond of the practice of the artist with the ... to be/to investigate in places like New York city, his residence since 1998; and in rural Pichingal (VII Region del Maule), its place of origin and residence in Chile, where several works emerge.

Questioning the relationship between the power and the construction of cities, the exhibition delves into the collective, the ephemeral, the solidarity, the occasional, desire, and the imagination as an essential element to make and also compete in the city. The critical question that underlies it is about what it means for the life of the capitalist system, as well as what the idea of the city and citizenship generates. Questions that the artist explores from rubbed, drifts, actions in the public space, facilities, projects, groups and community.

The work of Benitez is a material witness for observation processes of the localities in which he lives, as well as the communities of which it is part. Processes, documenting habitat and social organization, the first step of immersion for the intervention, the transgression, in addition to the criticism put into action. It is, then, a search for promoting other modes of experiencing and imagining cities and how to live in them.