Best known as a poet, performance artist, painter, and practitioner of fiber arts, the Chilean multi-hyphenate and pioneer of experimental forms Cecilia Vicuña has also maintained a long-standing practice of producing vital, formally innovative, ardently anti-colonialist moving image-based works. In conjunction with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—which hosted a major Vicuña retrospective last year—Metrograph will present three programs of the artist’s too-little-seen shorts and midlength films, at each of which Vicuña will appear in person to discuss her craft and, on one special occasion, give one of her renowned ritual-oriented performances in-theatre. “Few artists so buffeted by a lifetime of political circumstances have found such uniquely poetic ways to respond to the winds of terror, change, and hope.”—Lucy R. Lippard, “Cecilia Vicuña: The Persistence of Joy”

Presented with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum