Written in the Mist, Knit with the Body: The Textile Impulse in an Installation by Cecilia Vicuña
No. 6 (2020-01-01)Author(s)
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Carla Macchiavello
Abstract
The visual and poetic work of Cecilia Vicuña has been characterized by incarnating the act of weaving through diverse media, turning it into a political act of resistance. Taking the multi-media installation Disappeared Quipu (2018) as a case study, this paper proposes approaching Vicuña’s work as a re-pairing gesture, an ecological textile impulse that interlaces the Andean cosmovision with a multisensorial spatial sensibility.
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