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By the end of the project, which ran from 2016 to 2018, the quipu included 18 ropes of thread comprised of countless knots.

He said he wished the show had featured one of Vicuña’s monumental works, like the 26-foot quipu exhibited at Documenta 14 that first awakened the art world to the power of her vision.

When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used a device made up of a number of strings called a quipu, which encoded the data in knots.

Vicuña has used variations on the quipu form repeatedly, and produced a monumental version for the occasion.

“Spin Spin Triangulene” will also include Ms. Vicuña’s quipus, which are knotted, weblike creations inspired by a centuries-old Inca system of communication.