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Thread, poetry, discarded objects and political memory connect Indigenous knowledge with ecological crisis in six decades of radical, fragile art.
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Notice how fragility becomes resistance rather than weakness.
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The exhibition follows Vicuña from early political paintings and fragile found-object sculptures to the large-scale quipus for which she is internationally known. Ecological destruction, Indigenous knowledge, colonial histories and political resistance continuously overlap. London has particular significance: Vicuña studied at the Slade and went into self-exile here after Chile’s 1973 military coup.
Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago) is a Chilean poet, artist and activist whose practice deliberately dissolves distinctions between visual art, poetry, performance and ritual. Her work has become increasingly influential in contemporary ecological and feminist art.
Cecilia Vicuña
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