Cecilia Vicuna, born in 1948, is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile, and her fibre art quipus, knotted or unknotted strings, alongside her palabrarmas and precarios made from natural, delicate materials, stand out within a practice specifically linked to the term eco-feminism. She was awarded the Premio Velazquez de Artes Plasticas in 2019, Spain's most prominent art award, given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, in recognition of her work as a poet, visual artist and activist.
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In 1966, she attended architecture school at the University of Chile in Santiago but switched to the fine arts school.
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Her commitment to feminist forms and methodologies is considered to be a unifying theme across her diverse body of work, among which her fibre art quipus, knotted or unknotted strings, palabrarmas and precarios, made from natural, delicate materials, stand out.
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