Cecilia Vicuña

Artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña created the concept of Precarious Art in Chile in l966, an early response to the ecological crisis. Her improvisatory, participatory performances emphasise Indigenous cultural memory and the collective nature of action and creativity to bring forth justice, balance and transformation of the world. In 2017, Vicuña exhibited at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen was presented at five museums in the US from 2017 to 2020. Her retrospective Seehearing the Enlightened Failure opened at the Witte de With / Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam in 2019 before travelling to MUAC in Mexico City in 2020. Vicuña is the author of 27 books.