Cecilia Vicuña

(Chile | 1948)

Cecilia Vicuña addresses ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization issues. She calls the fragile and ephemeral structures she creates and vanishes in the landscape, like poems in space, Precarious Art. She reinvents the pre-Columbian language of the Quipús, weaving knots as a record of how urbanity, rivers, seas, and living beings are related in reconstructing a sense of unity and interconnectivity. Her poetry and Palabrarmas arise from a deep search into the roots of language, recognizing new ways of listening to ancestral silence in her visual anagrams.             

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