Photo Víctor Lerma

El Tendedero came back to life in 2007, thirty years after its original presentation at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, reappearing as documentation in a major art exhibition. Except for the version in Los Angeles in 1979, it hadn't been shown or reactivated, although it was mentioned in different publications and I often referred to it in my lectures. Then, in a completely new context, I was invited by curator Connie Butler from MOCA in Los Angeles, to present it at the WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4912 which featured works by nearly 120 early feminist artists from 21 countries.

This invitation presented me with a dilemma: how to show an ephemeral artwork years after its original appearance. I had gotten rid of the structure of the piece because it didn't fit anywhere. I thought I had kept the paper slips with the responses, but they were nowhere to be found, and since the answers were in Spanish, the audience would not understand them, so I decided to present four photographs and a text explaining the piece.

These are some articles of the exhibit where El Tendedero was mentioned.

Ambitious, diverse art exhibit of feminist revolutionaries by Alondra Hernández. March 6, 2007, Daily Sundial https://sundial.csun.edu/10011/archive/ambitiousdiverseartexhibitoffeministrevolutionaries/

The Art of Feminism as It First Took Shape by Holland Cotter, March 9, 2007, The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/arts/design/09wack.html