Cecilia Vicuña
(b. July 22, 1948, Santiago, Chile)
is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.
Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating “precarious works” and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.” Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, an image that morphs into a film, a song, a sculpture, or a collective performance.
Performance. 2017. Performance view,
near Athens, Greece, documenta 14,
April 2017. Photo: Natalia Figueroa
Cecilia Vicuña wrote on her website:
My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings.
In January 1966 I began creating precarios (precarious), installations and basuritas, objects composed of debris, structures that disappear, along with quipus and other weaving metaphors. I called these works “Arte Precario”, creating a new independent category, a non colonized name for them. The precarios soon evolved into collective rituals and oral performances based on dissonant sound and the shamanic voice. The fluid, multi-dimensional quality of these works allowed them to exist in many media and languages at once. Created in and for the moment, they reflect ancient spiritual technologies—a knowledge of the power of individual and communal intention to heal us and the earth.
Precarious means prayer, uncertain, exposed to hazards, insecure. Prayer is change, the dangerous instant of transmutation.
Desire is the offering—the body is only a metaphor.
For more go to: http://www.ceciliavicuna.com/
Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 × 33 in, 67.3 × 83.8 cm
Oil on canvas, 24 3/4 × 20 1/4 × 1 1/2 in, 62.9 × 51.4 × 3.8 cm
Oil on canvas, 18 × 14 3/4 in, 45.7 × 37.5 cm
With massive gratitude to @sophie.st.phalle https://instagram.com/sophie.st.phalle, for an introduction.
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