Cecilia Vicua: About to Happen

About this book

Vicua makes art of gathered materials from the ocean the river and the street Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean Chileanborn artist and poet Cecilia Vicuas (born 1948) artists book serves as both a lament and love letter to the sea. Vicua collects the detritus that washes up on shore and assembles out of the refuse tiny precarios and basuritaslittle sculptures held together with nothing more than string and wire. About to Happen which accompanies an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans traces a decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art land art feminist art performance and poetry. In an era of increasing climate change and economic disparity Vicuas nuanced visual poeticsoperating fluidly between concept and craft text and textiletransforms the discarded into the elemental paying acute attention to the displaced the marginalized and the forgotten.