Cecilia Vicuña

born 1948

Quipu Womb (The Story of the Red Thread, Athens) 2017
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Precarios: A Journal of Objects for the Chilean Resistance

Cecilia Vicuña

Naive-style portrait of a bare-breasted woman with long hair raising her hands, arched over by a ribbon of tiny scenes including a house, heart, brain and fruit, lettered 'ABCDEFGH' and 'hermano' at its end

Violeta Parra

Cecilia Vicuña

On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Dozens of thick knotted skeins of red-dyed wool hang from a suspended steel hoop, falling several metres in a loose column to pool on the pale wooden floor of a white gallery.

Quipu Womb (The Story of the Red Thread, Athens)

Cecilia Vicuña

Stories

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Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu: Calls-to-action

Miranda Samuels

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Cecilia Vicuña - 'Your Rage is Your Gold'

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Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu

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