Last Friday saw the inauguration of the first retrospective of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, Veroir el Fracaso Iluminado, which took place at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles (Madrid), and which will be on show until 11 July.
With the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, the Government of Chile and the collaboration of the Kunstintituut Melly of Rotterdam, the event was presided over by the Regional Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Community of Madrid, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, together with the Minister Counsellor of the Chilean Embassy, Rolando Ortega Klose, and the director of the Centre, Manuel Segade. An absolute figure of Latin American art on the international scene, Vicuña is considered one of the leading representatives of performance art, but she is also a writer, poet, activist and visual artist. The exhibition brings together more than a hundred works, shown for the first time in Spain, which reflect her permanent commitment to themes that encompass eroticism, colonial legacies, liberation struggles, collective happiness, indigenous thought and environmental devastation. Her work is linked to political resistance, feminist and sociological methods, dialogues with indigenous culture and ecological justice permeate her practice.
