'I was 24 when my world was destroyed': Cecilia Vicuña on Chile, art, and Aran sweaters
Cecilia Vicuña's first solo exhibition in Ireland is currently on at IMMA. Picture: Bruno Savelli
Cecilia Vicuña’s solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin is her first in Ireland. Reverse Migration, A Poetic Journey is inspired by a trip the New York-based Chilean artist made here with her partner, the poet James O’Hern, in 2006.
“James is Texan, Irish, Chickasaw,” says Vicuña . “He grew up in the Chihuahuan desert, surrounded by American Indians. But just before we met, he had published an extraordinary book of poetry called Honoring the Stones, where he traces his Irishness.
