Cecilia Vicuña and Sandra de Berduccy: Women Weavers in Miami

14 September – 2 November 2018

Cecilia Vicuña and Sandra de Berduccy are included Women Weavers: The Warp of Memory curated by the Aluna Curatorial Collective in Miami. This exhibition reunites artists from the Americas, from Argentina to the state of Hawaii, with artworks created in a period spanning from 1973 to 2018. The display contains pieces by pioneers like Olga de Amaral and Stella Bernal de Parra – and Cecilia Vicuña, ‘a textual and weaving poet whose work contains the spirit of the offering, reverence for nature, and pre-hispanic memory’. What these artists have in common is the use of textile fibres in artworks ‘that connect us with spaces of a common memory’. This connection with nature and the pre-hispanic past is shared by various artists: for example, Sandra de Berduccy ‘combines iconographies and ancestral weaving techniques with sophisticated lighting technology’. Alongside with them are artists in various stages of their practice who have experienced varying career paths: when woven together in the same space they ‘create an extraordinary multigenerational conversation’: in ancient Andean mythology messages were transmitted through textiles and history itself was sewn.