SABORAMI

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Author: Cecilia Vicuña Publisher: BookWorks Paperback One of our books of the year 2024! So says: This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit and three-dimensional practice of multimedia artist Cecilia Vicuña. Turn it one way, and SABORAMI is a fascinating insight into a 1970s UK counterculture of kitchen-table publishing, radical exhibition spaces and internationalist protests, of which Vicuña became a key part when she found herself in exile from Chile after the Western-backed 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, whose youth cultural corps Vicuña had been part of. Turn it another way, and it’s a mature artist and writer reflecting back on her early work and its continuities through her subsequent practice as an unraveller of colonial and patriarchal language. Turn it another, and it’s a testament to a thriving contemporary artbook publishing scene that celebrates its political and artistic communities, legacies of radical protest, and creation of beautiful, beautiful, significant books. Show more