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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