VITRINE presents Danish artist Cecilia Fiona’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, which presents a new body of paintings, sculpture and performance exploring the existential mysteries of life.
Fiona’s unique technique for painting uses rabbit skin glue mixed with handmade and natural pigments, applied to the canvas with a small, thin brush. This meticulousness means that her work is full of detailed, complex compositions, blending figures and landscapes into one another creating a state of flow and tumult on the canvas dissolving the boundaries between bodies and the world.
Fiona’s new series of paintings create dreamlike landscapes that depict androgynous figures, blossoming flowers, and bizarre panoramas full of chaos and magic. These works incorporate a richer colour palette that moves away from a previous semi-translucent, dusty finish to a darker and bolder canvas, echoing the more detailed observations of fantastical worlds and the macro- and microcosms of the universe.
Finding influence within complex areas of scientific study, including quantum physics and string theory, Fiona visualises the construction and connection of the world through the invisible and how this influences our relationship to what we can see. The work ‘Weaving time, spinning spine’ (2023) shows a spine running through the canvas with nerves connecting fields of existence together, using the body as an analogy for a universe full of biomes and microorganisms, an ecosystem seemingly invisible yet teeming with life.
| Duration | 19 January 2024 - 09 March 2024 |
| Times | Wed – Sat, 12 – 6pm |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Vitrine Fitzrovia |
| Address | 38 Riding House Street, London, W1W 7ES |
| Contact | / info@vitrinegallery.com / www.vitrinegallery.com |