Cecilia Edefalk

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand" at The Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London.

 

The exhibition Time and Memory brought together the two contemporary Swedish artists, Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand, whose works have never before been shown in a London institution. From the late 1980s, both at home and abroad, Cecilia Edefalk has been considered one of Sweden’s leading artists. Since Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s acclaimed graduation show at the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, in 2003, her work has featured in numerous exhibitions across Europe and overseas. 

 

Cecilia Edefalk’s paintings emerge as a network of repetitions, reproductions and historical memory. Often reflecting her own process-oriented practice, Edefalk’s scenarios carve out haunting exchanges between past and present, in which unexpected connections unfold with sudden clarity. Often painted in series, Edefalk’s paintings allude to and intensify one another. The interaction between the works lends a quality of performance to her exhibitions. 

 

Memory is at the core of Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s work, as well. The artist’s photo-realistic black-ink drawings are a deeply private and meticulously reconstructed documentation of her personal history. Having shown a series of large-scale ink drawings that re-created photographs from her father’s early childhood in her 2003 graduation exhibition at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Wåhlstrand continues to investigate other motifs from her family photograph albums. The precise and demanding work of depicting these documents allows the artist to physically and psychologically approach a personal history that she did not experience, yet is living its consequences. 

 

Published by Parasol Unit, London, 2011

This book is no longer in print.

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Hardcover
English
73 pages
11.61 x 8.11 inches; 29.5 x 21 cm
ISBN 978-0956024732