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The Amaranta Project

The Amaranta Project

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Cecilia Vicuña’s painting from 1972 “Amaranta"

Cecilia Vicuña’s painting 1972 “Amaranta” was “lost and reborn” when found in 2021.

The Chilean artist-poet-activist writes simply as an introduction to her work, “My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings.”

We asked writers to create flash responses the “lost and reborn” painting, generating six micro-fictions (all translated into Spanish, with our gratitude, by Kianny N. Antigua), four poems, and one nonfiction. Please enjoy these beautiful, vivid works for our Winter 2021-2022 In-Residence Feature.

– Aster(ix) Editors


Cecilia Vicuña Explicación: Amaranta
Oil on canvas, 1972-2021

As written in Catalogue for Shanghai Biennale, 2021
A girl is wrapped in her menstruation as if it were a gown of blood.
Because her menstruation is perceived as a disgusting threat, a
man knifes her laughing gaudily as he murders her, while another
man laughs even harder, holding her wrap of blood that now is a
prison tethering her to bone poles. A telephone line controls her
and two hands, male and female push her in place, to facilitate
the murder.


The Amaranta Project

Micro-Fictions

In English and Spanish (all translations by Kianny N. Antigua)

Poetry

Micro Nonfiction

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