Bony's performance La Familia Obrera (The Working Class Family) was a controversial inclusion in the Experiences 68 exhibition at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. Bony used the exhibition budget to pay a workingclass family to sit on a plinth in the gallery for eight hours a day while recorded sounds of their home life played in the background. That the family's income earner, Luis Ricardo Rodríguez, a die-caster, was earning twice what he would have made at his job highlighted how low wages were. Produced during a time of increasing artistic radicalization in the face of devastating economic policies, La Familia Obrera drew attention to issues expunged from the mainstream Argentinean press. In May 1968, all of the artists featured in Experiences 68—including Bony and David Lamelas—withdrew their work from the exhibition following the censorship by police of an installation by Roberto Plate.
Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, September 5, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Explore more
From MoMA Design Store
Installation views
We have identified this work in the following photos from our exhibition history.
Licensing
Artwork or archival images
If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA's collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).
Audio and film clips
MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit Circulating Film and Video Library.
Text from a publication or the archives
If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA's archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].
Feedback
This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please fill out this feedback form.