Spatial Poems Cecilia Vicuña, Sam Frésquez, Lola Ayisha Ogbara

Spatial Poems is a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by CEI Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson, who aim to disrupt the art world’s usual curatorial structures. Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘precarios’ – a series of multidisciplinary works composed in part of sculptures made out of debris and in part collective rituals of dissonant sound – serve as the overarching conceptual framework for the three interrelated projects, with curators and artists responding to the many themes Vicuña’s works evoke. The artists and artworks explore ephemerality, memory, and cyclical repetition through a range of materials and compositional approaches. Together, the projects can be understood as a score or spatial poem, created by curators and artists working in a euphonious rhythm. Spatial Poems inspires a dialogue on care, social relations, and the organization of new forms of being and processes as an act of refusal to the current precaritization of the art world. Cecilia Vicuña: union of three Curated by Marissa Del Toro Cecilia Vicuña: union of three is rooted in the artist’s 60-year art practice of ‘precarios’ or ‘Arte Precario’—small assemblages made from discarded and fragmented materials conceptually foregrounded in ephemerality, intangibility, and evanescence. Born in 1948 in Santiago, Chile, and based in New York City, the pioneering visual artist, poet, filmmaker, and activist has focused on various political issues, from the fascist Pinochet era of Chile to the present environmental destruction. Cecilia Vicuña: union of three presents a selection of ‘precario’ and quipu sculptures, including her monumental Quipu Desaparecido 2 / Disappeared Quipu 2 (2018) and Balsa Snake Raft to Escape the Flood (2017), alongside films, texts, and sound. Learn more Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Scars Insist on Being Remembered Curated by Jamillah Hinson in collaboration with Marissa Del Toro Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Scars…