Cecilia is a London-based artist, originally from Sweden. She previously qualified as an architect and her knowledge of physical crafts and spacial manipulation is central to her practice. She uses recurring forms and colours as a personal symbolic language, creating abstract configurations and hints of narrative. Her use of unusual mediums – in this case brass and emulsion – relate concepts or states of being, such as fragility and contemplation. Her work often engages with the surroundings, creating moments of reflection and a playful response to the environment, embracing both space and light in a confident, conceptual and abstract form.
Central to her work is an ongoing exploration into stories – originating in personal experience and sentiments, her relationship with memories, tales and dreams. By examining and reassembling the narrative, a chronicle emerge, one often told through the eyes of a protagonist.
She uses recurring forms and colours as a personal symbolic language; abstract configurations communicate narratives, distil complex emotions and a personal universe. Materials such as fluorescent paint, matt emulsion, rubber and fabric are juxtaposed to relate concepts or states of being - for example energy, fragility, containment, silence, reflection.
Through her work she seeks to understand her own reactions to questions of societal norms, personal morality, the truth and the passing of lived time. Her process of dissecting memory and imagination is an attempt to decipher the world and the myriad conceivable interpretations it offers.