The first public activity of the Pivô Research 2022 residency program is a conversation between the Peruvian curator, researcher and writer Miguel A. López and the Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña. 

The activity will be broadcast live via zoom on February 10, at 6pm, and it will be mediated by Marilia Loureiro, Mônica Hoff and Tiago Sant’Ana, in charge for the curatorial follow-up this year. No prior registration is required.  The activity will include simultaneous translation and interpretation in  Brazilian sign language.

WATCH IT HERE  (portuguese version) or HERE (original audio)

Ver la verdad del ver

Ojos-boca. Ojos-poros. Ojos-sexo. Veroír. Ver y dar. Ojos y manos. Visión y tacto colectivos. ¿Cómo abrirnos a la ver dad del ver? No ser más invisibles. Aprender a ver-se. El ver como un proceso radiante de gozo liberador. Esta es una conversación sobre la imagen del ojo y el poder de la visión en la obra de Cecilia Vicuña. 

Seeing the truth of seeing

Eyes-mouth. Eyes-pores. Eyes-sex. See-hear.  Seeing and giving. Eyes and hands. Collective vision and touch. How can we open ourselves to the seeing of seeing? Not to be invisible anymore. Learning to see ourselves. Seeing as a radiant process of liberating joy. This is a conversation about the image of the eye and the power of vision in Cecilia Vicuña’s work [our translation].

About the 

Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (1948, Santiago, Chile) is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. Her work has been exhibited in several institutions, including: Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; the Berkeley Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vicuña has published twenty-two books of art and poetry, including Kuntur Ko (Tornsound, 2015), Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), Instan (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), and Cloud Net (Art at Large, 2000). In 2009, she co-edited The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: 500 years of Latin American Poetry, and in 1997 she edited ÜL: Four Mapuche Poets. 

Miguel A. López

Miguel A. López (1983, Lima, Peru) is a writer, researcher and curator. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica; first as chief curator (2015-2017) and then as co-director and chief curator (2018-2020). His recent curatorial projects include “And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?” at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021); and “Cecilia Vicuña: Veroir the Illuminated Failure” at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019) and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2020). He is the author of Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Pesopluma, 2019). López is co-founder of the independent space Bisagra, active in Peru since 2014. His texts have been published in magazines such as Afterall, Artforum, E-flux Journal and ArtNexus, among others.