Cecilia Vicuña installed “The Origin of Weaving” in the Poetry Foundation Gallery today!
Dianna Frid and Cecilia Vicuña: A Textile Exhibition opens September 4. Vicuña will do a site-specific performance of “The Origin of Weaving” on September 17.
57There are artists who make trendy abstract paintings in bold, unmodulated colors so nothing is gained or lost when one sees them on Instagram or in the gallery; these paintings are as easy to apprehend online as a color swatch for a sofa, which is ideal for the collector who doesn’t have time to experience the product in person. Similarly, there are more writers who write with transparent compression, knowing that their phrases could be atomized into tweets, chiseled into self-sufficient, endlessly linkable fragments.
But Doris Salcedo is not that kind of artist. She makes installations that resolutely resist this age of digital reproduction. Installation art is an immersive somatic experience, engaging all our perceptual planes — the spatial, the aural — and not just the optical.
– from Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness,” in the May 2015 issue of Poetry magazine. Hong discusses Paul Celan, Doris Salcedo, and memory in the Internet age
Installation views, Doris Salcedo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 21 — May 24, 2015. Artworks are by Doris Salcedo. Photographs are by Nathan Keay, © Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
