Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
July 11–October 14, 2018
This first survey of Vicuña’s work stages a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Selection of Precarios, 1966–2017; 110 found-object sculptures; stone, shells, glass, wood, plastic, thread, net, seeds, paper, cloth, detritus, sand; dimensions variable. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Arco arrayán; mixed media; 12 x 16 x 4 in. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Cecilia Vicuña: We the People (Nosotros, el pueblo), 2016; hand-written and sewn text on canvas, red thread, colored pencil. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Plastic Wind, n.d.; mixed media; dimensions variable. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Cecilia Vicuña: still from Semiya, 2015; video; color, sound. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Selected Exhibition Objects
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SculpturePrecarios
Cecilia Vicuña
1966–2017
110 found-object sculptures; stone, shells, glass, wood, plastic, thread, net, seeds, paper, cloth, detritus, sand
dimensions variable
Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Mixed MediaArco arrayán
Cecilia Vicuña
Mixed media
12 x 16 x 4 in.
Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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Mixed MediaPlastic Wind
Cecilia Vicuña
n.d.
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
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FilmSemiya
Cecilia Vicuña
2015
Video; color, sound
Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2017. Photo: Alex Marks.
Past Events
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Saturday, September 8, 11:30 AM–1 PM or 1–2:30 PMGallery + Studio: From Dream to Play: The Art of Cecilia Vicuña
Get inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, then work with wood, paint, words, and one another to create art and community.
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
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Wednesday, July 11, 6 PMCurators’ Talk: Andrea Andersson and Julia Bryan-Wilson on Cecilia Vicuña
The co-curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.
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Wednesday, July 11, 7:30 PMCecilia Vicuña in Performance
Cecilia Vicuña creates a participatory performance, followed by a conversation with exhibition co-curators Julia Bryan-Wilson and Andrea Andersson.
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Sunday, July 8, 3 PM
Reading: Cecilia Vicuña
Poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña reads from and signs her new volume of selected poems.