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Exhibition aims to awaken public consciousness to the realities of environmental destruction Installation view: And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers, Kunsthalle Wien 2021, photo: © eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler. VIENNA .- “And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?” writes the Chilean poet, artist and activist Cecilia Vicuña in an untitled poem from the late 1960s, early 1970s. With this question Vicuña counters anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and nonhuman entities and worlds. The exhibition And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?, curated by Miguel A. López, revolves around this very vision of interconnectivity that Vicuña portrays in her poem by bringing together artists whose practices engage in the struggle for collective survival and the processes involved in restoring disrupted social bonds. Indigenous epistemologies are understood as central in

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