REAL ESTATE MIS-OPPORTUNITIES
collages of newsprint on paper, 16 x 20 inches, 2006
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Exhibitions
Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art
Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, US
Review by Tatiana Flores, ArtNexus
RE:GENERATION Emerging Women Artists
Smack Mellon in collaboration with Kentler International Drawing Space
"A pointed dialogue with the United States is also established by Francisca Benitez and Cesar Cornejo through architectural references. Benitez juxtaposes domestic architecture with commercial ventures. Her series Real Estate Mis-Opportunities appropriates a group of newspaper advertisements for home sales in Brooklyn but removes the photographs of the houses, leaving in their place black or white silhouettes. Made in 2006, the images anticipate the worsening housing crisis in the United States and critique the circumstances that led to individuals speculating on the values of their homes."
-Tatiana Flores, ArtNexus
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