For over 40 years, Cecilia Vicuña has been making paintings, sculptures, and site-specific works, merging feminist practices, Indigenous traditions, performance, conceptual art, and poetry. Born and raised in Chile, she was exiled during the military rule of Augusto Pinochet, who is known for generating the disappearance of thousands of people, especially Indigenous groups. Vicuña often alludes to the Inca civilization in her textile craft works, combining feathers, stones, shells, plastic, wood, and other materials, suggesting a certain degree of fragility and ephemerality. Her sculptures are soft in nature and site-specific, incorporating textile materials and weaving strategies. Vicuña has also authored numerous poetry publications. Vicuña’s dual interest in poetry and visual art can be seen in her quipoems works, as the artists calls them. Once outlawed during the Spanish colonization of South America, quipus were used in an ancient Inca tally system using textiles and knots as a device for recording information. In her quipoems, Vicuña reactivates the quipu, channeling an ancient form of communication to create site-specific poems in space. At times, Vicuña has also used her quipoems as performance elements, activating them with poetry and body gestures.