Burley Fisher’s So Mayer selected Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: an extended facsimile edition as one of their books of 2024, and written a beautiful short review which we’re sharing in full here:

“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.”

Thank you Burley Fisher and So for your support!