Glean

Magical Realism at Wiels

Glean 8, Summer 2025

Review by Michaela Schweighofer

When Cecilia Vicuña speaks, her voice is strong and steady, despite her small frame and age; her clear words resonate with the audience: ‘The only way to oppose maximum violence is extreme fragility. Because to stand with fragility is to stand with the truth of life.’ The artist speaks on the occasion of ‘Magical Realism: Imagining Dis/order’ at Wiels. Vicuña is one of nearly thirty artists who are part of this transgenerational exhibition that interrogates the divide between the world (…)

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