Making its Tate debut when the galleries open in May will be Cecilia Vicuña’s Quipu Womb, recently voted to be acquired by the Tate Latin American Acquisitions Committee. Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago, Chile, 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile. Vicuña’s monumental Quipu Womb debuted at Documenta 14 and remains recognized as one of the most internationally significant art works of the last ten years.
Month: April 2021
CECILIA VICUÑA ON DISPLAY AT TATE MODERN
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ACQUIRES WORKS BY DAWOUD BEY
The Tate Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of five photographs from Dawoud Bey’s series Night Coming Tenderly, Black using funds provided by the North American Acquisitions Committee.
Night Coming Tenderly, Black explores the history of fugitive movement along the Underground Railroad. Taken in the areas surrounding Hudson and Cleveland, Ohio – one of the final stopping points on the historic route – Bey’s photographs depict rural scenes at night. The photographs suggest what the passage to freedom might have looked and felt like from the perspective of nervous and disorientated fugitives, navigating obstacles and fear of ambush against a black night sky.