CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/27/2024

Humanity searching for itself in 'Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water'

“I want to begin talking about the creation of a transnational feeling in the nineteen-sixties. Now that may sound like an ideal, but in the sixties if you were a young artist like I was, a teenager, you were part of a shared feeling, it was a body sensation where you felt cosmically united with the heavens, with the earth, with everything that was happening in the world. The word ‘global’ didn’t exist, but that was how we existed—and this is because the military coup [in Chile] had not yet occurred. We didn’t have the sense that ‘this is Argentina, this is Chile, this is the border, that is Europe’; we had the feeling that there was just humanity searching for itself.” Featured spreads and this quote, from a 2020 dialogue between Valerie Fraser and Cecilia Vicuña, are from the beautifully produced, 364-page new release, Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water: A Retrospective of the Future (1964–…)—the most thorough monograph on the Chilean artist, poet and ecofeminist to date.