It is a month-long project with an hybrid format between an exhibition, a think tank and an artist residency. Five Chilean artists will be invited to reside in Valparaíso (CL) for the length of the project and to attend the daily meetings in a dismissed train station, known as Ex-Maestranza. The title means to be an homage to the work of Cecilia Vicuña, an artist who has been recently recognized worldwide for her capacity to convey a poetic image of the dramatic transformations that Chile has undergone in the last thirty years by revisiting indigenous knowledges related to the use of thread as a mnemonic devices. Precariousness, memory, collective rituals and environmental concerns will be the key themes which the artists will be invited to explore through the production of new works then exposed to the public in a final collective exhibition. Moreover, further collaborators (such as researchers, activists and art historians) will join the conversations taking place day by day in the Ex-Maestranza: these seminars will be open to the locals, documented and shared online. The aim of the project proposed is indeed twofold: one the one hand, the artists will reflect on the intimate connection between ‘critique’ and ‘creation’, grounding their researches on the specificity socio-ecological system of  Valparaíso. On the other hand, by inviting Chilean-born artists who often reside abroad, the project wish to provide a statement on a glocal young generation of art creators.