Cecilia Fiona

About the artist

Cecilia Fiona (b. 1997 in Denmark) lives and work in Copenhagen, Denmark. Fiona works across sculpture, painting, costume, and performance to create an interconnected ecosystem where each medium evolves from the other. Her ritual-like performances give physical form to the creatures in her paintings, while her sculptures expand the worlds depicted in her visual works. 
Drawing inspiration from quantum physics, microbiology, and alchemy she creates her own mythological universe populated by biomorphic and hybrid beings situated somewhere between prehistorical creatures and future human species. 
Her practice envisions speculative futures where the boundaries between human, nature, and cosmos dissolve into fluid, interconnected realities.

Fiona is interested in transitions and interconnectedness and the transformation between life and death, nature and humanity, dreams and reality. She sees her works as ecosystems of beings in constant transformation toward new stages of life and existence, transcending boundaries where new perspectives and positions emerge.

Using organic materials such as paper pulp, shells, branches, rabbit-skin glue, jute, loofah plant and natural pigments, Fiona explores the symbiotic relationship between the body and the earth. 
Fiona has created a unique technique for her painting using rabbit-skin glue, which is usually used as a canvas primer. Instead, Fiona mixes it with pigments to use it as paint, providing her work with a semi-translucent, dusty finish, accentuating its ethereal qualities. The process is temperamental and leaves traces of previous attempts, “like forgotten tales which emerge as ghosts from the past.”
 Each work is painted with a small, thin brush – even the large strokes and paintings. This meticulousness means that her work is full of details and complex compositions, blending figures and landscapes into one another creating a state of flow and tumult on the canvas dissolving the boundaries between the bodies and the world.

Her work has been widely covered by international media including The New York Times, Art Matter, White Hot Magazine, Art Maze, I Do Art and Kunstavisen.