Cecilia Vicuña Chosen for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Commission
Simply weeks after snagging Venice Biennale’s coveted Golden Lion, Chilean artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña has been tapped to create the 2022 Hyundai Fee for Tate Trendy’s Turbine Corridor. The work will probably be on view on the large London house from October 13, 2022, to April 16, 2023. In receiving the celebrated fee, the artist—who in the midst of a fifty-year profession has constructed an expansive and variegated follow addressing points together with environmentalism and feminism—joins artists reminiscent of Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson, Doris Salcedo, Anicka Yi, Kara Walker, and Ai Weiwei.
“As a tireless champion of ecological consciousness and social justice, in addition to the creator of beautiful and highly effective artistic endeavors, I’m delighted that Tate Trendy will probably be working with Cecilia Vicuña on our subsequent annual Hyundai Fee,” mentioned Tate director Francis Morris.
The Santiago–born Vicuña was exiled from her native Chile within the early Seventies following the violent navy coup that ousted President Salvador Allende. Now residing in New York, she is understood for works knowledgeable by the Indigenous tradition of her house nation and by the financial, political, environmental, and gender disparities that have an effect on societies. She is finest identified for her quipus, strands of knotted fibers that reference the traditional Andean communication system; “precarios,” objects produced from discarded supplies and exuding a way of impermanence; movie; collective efficiency, and installations; she has moreover revealed twenty-seven volumes of poetry.
Tate final 12 months acquired Vicuña’s 2017 work Quipu Womb (The Story of the Crimson Thread, Athens), which consists of fifty strands of unspun wool cascading from the middle of a ceiling-hung metallic hoop and is claimed to reference menstrual blood. For Artforum’s March 2021 difficulty, Vicuña shared a portfolio of labor from the start of her profession.
