Index Code:

ART-OAT-VIC

Orgin:

Chile

Field Notes:

Knotted threads sticks and spoken poems operate as minimal architectures for memory and land rights

Defining Moment:

The quipu installations where suspended strands gather dust and offerings turning Indigenous record systems into spatial assemblies

Cecilia Vicuña

(

1948–

)

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Vicuña built a world where fiber becomes language — knots, lines, and suspended forms mapping memory and ritual.

Her work treats fragility as structural order.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Cecilia Vicuña’s work, this approach appears where impermanence, gesture, and site generate structure through fragile process.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Cecilia Vicuña’s work, this approach appears where impermanence, gesture, and site generate structure through fragile process.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Social Practice

Art operates through participation and social systems.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Cecilia Vicuña

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Cecilia Vicuña

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue