Cicelia Vikuna: “Fear distorting reality, you should learn to rest with fear”

Cicelia Vikuna (Santiago, Chile, 78 years old) believed that she would die as an unknown artist. He was there for three years in London – when the Pinochet dictatorship exploded, he was there, which was boycotted – or five who lived in Bogota, his artistic work was not recognized. At that time I started creating Words (words (wordsPoetry games tear down words that make them symbolic weapons), Basuritas (Small sculptures made of items found in the street) and He is Dangerous art (ephemeral sculptures built of sticks, leaves and stones). Four days after arriving in New York, in the 1980s – United to make a show – he fell in love with an artist and later became her husband. So Vikuna settled in Big Apple for loveNow, there is a living there.

In New York, he began to develop Quipus, which became the spirit of his work. The universe of poems, monuments, sculptures and paintings is tied to the nature, indigenous art and eventually makes the unanimous beauty, the society often denies the shade.

Almost half a century after his artistic career began, in 2017, Cicelia Vikuna began to resonate strongly. In 2022, New York Guggle Guggenheim held its first great rethinking at the United States, performed in Tate Modern, London, and awarded the Leone de Oro Award at Venice Binnee. Recognitions have continued ever since. Last year he was adhered to its activation of Eric and Silver Schmith of Environment and Art, especially the weather crisis and was given it a few weeks ago One of the first medals of the Art Basel Awards “One of the most effective and versatile living artists” in the category of iconic artists. This is part of the list Power 100 Artvave is the one who recognizes the most influential people in the art world.

Currently, his work can be seen in a mass show Mother’s tongueWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. At the Central Public Library of Brooklyn (New York), at the Perez Museum in Miami, at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsa and at the Javier Huffkence Gallery in Brussels, Thursday to September 13 The ancient futureWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. Later his audiovisual work option.

Ask. He has been living in the same loft for 45 years, he stayed when he reached New York. What is a man like you like you in this great city?

Answer. I tried to go to another place many times. My partner, my husband, Argentina, so my first attempt to live a tripartite life between Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chile and New York. It has worked for many years. Then the triangle unarmed and stayed in New York. Returning to Chile is impossible, returning to what is uncertain. I have not left this idea, but the perfect form is not yet expressed. I dream to return to the mountainsI miss you so much, but life is not one, life belongs to everyone.

P. He is a very intelligent person, what is the most relevant thing he has learned?

R. The most powerful thing for me is to understand that one thing is to perceive one thing and realize the other. Find out that I have and have a certain and unique consciousness. Knowing that way (I call it “with” in myself Words. I remember the first day I thought and understood that it was a gift and not everyone was allowed to stay in that position.

P. Where did it happen?

R. It is in Chile’s pre -mountain range, I am fifteen and three or four in the afternoon. He is in the hills where the pastures of dry, yellow pastures are much higher than me. The rebellion came to me with a baza of wild bee. I felt that the buzz was a real cause of existence. This is a static buzz, which wraps the whole body and the whole spirit. I believe that the bees enter themselves into the trance. And many humans are now thinking about the brutal way of living, for the lack of silver, for diseases, violence, violence and torture … It is a violation of humanity that we have a gift that we live in a gift that we do not respect. How can we not protect it as the most valuable object of existence?

P. How is this gift that is prevalent over fear and dominance over it?

R. I am in situations that cause a lot of fear before the violations of women. I crossed the Amazon finger, such. But by meditation I understand that the real danger is surrendered with fear, because fear distort the reality. Fear affects your environment, affecting your body. It is like a lie, digestion changes. The body reacts strongly to those emotions. Since you cannot defeat fear, you have to live in fear and fear, which allows you to cross the tight fabric and cross you. Rest within that fear.

P. Many have left their art for survival. You thought you would die as an unknown, which was in your work?

R. It is associated with my upbringing. I live up to nine years in this field. I remember that I read the biography of Mozart for children, a desperate genius for hunger, and I was recorded with the idea that a wonderful art identification, or not for value or money. The obvious thing is that “do it now” and then you will do it or not, it’s alternative. Art means learning to take immediate attention to things that are subtle, gentle and obscure, and if not, will try. When I grew up without television or more distracted than the field, I was able to develop a kind of attention to that internal artistic call.

P. He began to get a sudden recognition in Documenta 14 from 2017. What has changed?

R. I think that turned out to be art ecosystem. Document 14 is an unusual mass movement, which is open to different ones, what he thinks and feels. The edition was a feeling “look in the south” and gave me a high -rise place in the main museum. There is a place at a height of ten meters to make my quipus. I did not quiped more than four meters. That night I dreamed and explained to me how the quip was it. This is amazing.

P. His identity was delayed as many women’s artists, but he was able to enjoy more than others, such as Carmen Herrera, Atel Adnon or Faith Ringgold

R. In Documenta 14, I realized that for the first time in my life I realized that I was filled with old artists, in which I was. We are very brave and brutal. He is no longer in the bravery that elder women no longer walk. What a wonderful thing! I thought, we are in the world, history, and another place of time! I think it is a blessing to live when it is still clear. I see that friends who are less than twenty years less than me are already in the great circulation of their work. So it is probably the trend now. The sublime.

P. He received one of the first medals awarded in the Art Basel Awards and icon category

R. The award is different from any other awards in the art world, as it gives gifts to the artistic ecosystem, and we have come to the context of cooperation, and Art Basel has been awarded artists who can cooperate with Art Basel. This seems to be a real pattern change for me, which produces happiness and pride because I have existed in that participant in that participant. This is not just me, but a gift to the collective soul.

P. Is there any reflection that you want to share about aging or race end process?

R. Maximum death. In Chile “It’s Death!” It is to say that it is maximum.