Artist Cecilia Vincuna’s work ‘Brain Forest Quipu’, commissioned by Tate Modern, sees Vincuna place 27 metres of pale chipu sculptures on the ceilings at either end of the Turbine Hall, woven from a variety of materials including readymade objects, unwoven wool, plant fibres, rope and cardboard. The Kip sculptures are combined with music and sound, which emerge instantly as the viewer moves through the space.

This work continues the creative language of Vicuna’s “kip” series. Vincuna’s first experience of weaving dates back to the early 1970s, but it was not long before she began making unique ‘kip’ out of wool as an ephemeral and site-specific installation that combines weaving and spinning. An installation that combines knitting and spinning, poetry and performance.

I feel that Brain Forest Quipu is like a mourning for the destruction of the forest, the effects of climate change. When walking through it, the wind chime like decorations sound like the cries of an ancient forest and the installation itself looks like the ghost of a dead tree from afar.