Image from artist's website: www.ceciliafiona.com
Cecilia Fiona, born in 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark, has a unique technique of painting with rabbit skin glue mixed with handmade natural pigments to create a clear and dreamy translucent effect.In addition to painting and sculpture, music and clothing are also important mediums for Fiona, who tries to expand her inspiration into three-dimensional space through the dialogue of different senses, constructing a mysterious and contradictory spiritual world. Like a lost scene from an ancient myth, Fiona explores the philosophies of nature and the mysteries of the heaven and earth with imaginative romanticism by depicting the fluid intertwining of mankind and nature, between the unreal and the real.
The mixed faces of humans, animals, and plants; new creatures born from women’s mouths; angels spreading their wings and flying towards something; the fusion of clothing and performances that
treat the body as an unrestricted container… In Fiona’s paintings, sculptures and costume installations, a series of prehistoric and futuristic creatures coexist and become entangled, like the images of ancient Roman cave monsters, full of grotesque themes and conflicting elements. Fiona freely creates her own universe, an ancient mythological world before the birth of order, where there
is no opposition between life and death, earth and heaven, or fixed boundaries between nature, humans and animals.
“I am me and at the same time you.” Fiona’s work closely connects the human subject to its surroundings and the natural world, rejecting the idea that humans are superior to nature, that everything changes and is never finalized. The human body and mind, the vastness and immensity of nature, the past, present and future, cross species and time and space, melting into the myth of chaos and walking into Fiona’s vision of a new world of conception.