Feminism, ecology, activism… Cecilia Vicuña's artistic career has followed the same creative path since she began working in the 1960s, and over the years she has received numerous international awards and recognitions. In 2022, a retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York and the Golden Lion for a whole career at the Venice Biennale made it a memorable year for her. But the celebrations are not over yet: until mid-April, one of her quipus will occupy the Turbine Room at the Tate in London.
Quipu. It is an ancient system of information coding and communication used by the Quechua civilization. Using knots (which is what ‘quipu' translates to in the Cusco–Collao Quechua language), it consisted of a
