{"product_id":"cecilia-vicua-about-to-happen-9781938221156","title":"Cecilia Vicua: About to Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003eVicua 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652935737397,"sku":"ByrdShop_193822115X","price":129.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781938221156.jpg?v=1781853554","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cecilia-vicua-about-to-happen-9781938221156","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}