Cecilia Vicuña - The vanished glacier

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea announces Cecilia Vicuña - El glaciar ido (The Vanished Glacier/ Il ghiacciao scomparso), the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum by Cecilia Vicuña. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1948 and based in New York, Vicuña is an artist, poet, and activist whose feminist and ecological practice addresses the defense of democracy, freedom of expression, and decolonial approaches to safeguarding Indigenous cultural memory.

Conceived as a new commission for the Manica Lunga, the exhibition made of video works and poetic compositions written by the artist, centers on a large-scale quipu acostado, a horizontal wool installation suspended at multiple heights designed for the building’s architecture.

Drawing on ancient Andean quipu, a system of knotted cords used for calculation and communication, the artist presents this form as a meditation on geological and human time, the movement of wind and water, and the human influence on the environment, evoking the vanished glaciers that once shaped the landscape of the Valle di Susa where the Castello is situated.

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia 10098
Torino, Italy
Visiting hours: Wednesday to Friday 10am - 17pm.

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