THE POETICS OF CECILIA VICUÑA AT MALBA
Soñar el agua, una retrospectiva del futuro (1964-...) [Dreaming of Water, a Retrospective of the Future (1964-...)] is the most comprehensive exhibition at MALBA dedicated to this day to the poet, visual artist and feminist activist Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948). It is under the curatorship of Miguel A. López.
The exhibition offers a reading of Vicuña's work from a South American perspective and reviews sixty years of her production, highlighting her links with Chile, Argentina, the Andes Mountains, pre-Columbian textile memory, feminist struggles and eroticism, as well as the demands for self-determination of indigenous communities.
The exhibition brings together nearly 200 works, including paintings, drawings, texts, silkscreen prints, collages, textiles, videos, photographs, installations, book-objects, documents and sound performances made in different parts of the Americas and Europe. Soñar el agua updates Vicuña's commitment to popular struggles, respect for human rights and the importance of opposing devastation in a broad sense.
In addition, the site-specific installation Quipu menstrual (The blood of the glaciers), originally conceived by Vicuña in 2006 as a way of expressing his support for Michelle Bachelet, the first woman president of Chile, will be presented.
Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago, Chile, 1948) is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago, Chile, she lived in exile since the early 1970s, following the military coup against President Salvador Allende. In London, she co-founded Artists for Democracy in 1974.
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