Notes related to Cecilia Vicuña

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced two winners of the inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize: Julian Charrière (b. 1987 in Morges, Switzerland; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) and Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York, NY and Santiago, Chile). Each artist will receive 100,000 USD and institutional support from MOCA to develop a commissioned project addressing the critical intersections of art, climate change, and environmental justice.

Cecilia Vicuña's Quipu Gut is a large hanging sculpture of unspun wool dyed entirely red, made in 2017 and inspired by the ancient quipu system, that arrived at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami.

The exhibition Bastardie is built around the practices of slangs, jargons, and other language experiments as laboratories for aesthetic and social positions. The group exhibition at KADIST proposes the following question: how are ways of speaking in constant productive relationships with forms of doing as well as looking?

Sonoran Quipu is a sprwaling sculpture at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson composed of natural and human debris collected by indivuals and organizations across the city.