The Chilean artist, activist, and poet has made it her purpose to breathe new life into the Indigenous art of the Quipu. Now, she's finally getting her due.
Photograph by David Heald; courtesy of the Guggenheim
The Chilean artist, activist, and poet, Cecilia Vicuña, has made it her purpose to breathe new life into the Andean quipu. “The moment I discovered [one], I knew somehow that the quipu and I had something to do with each other,” she says. Over the course of her decades-long career, she has created thousands of these vibrant thread sculptures, or expressions of “spatial poetry,” as she calls them, to respond to global violence, ecological catastrophe, and cultural erasure.
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