Follow the Flowers (092)

Andersen’s is delighted to present Cecilia Fiona’s first solo exhibition Follow the Flowers at the gallery.
The exhibition features a series of new works that explore the relationship between humans and nature, pointing to the eternal transformation of all things and the constant movement toward new stages of life. In Follow the Flowers, Cecilia Fiona presents her own magical world, rooted in the timelessness of myth. Her works leave room for the inexplicable and the paradoxical, weaving together a cosmos of wondrous new ecosystems far removed from the world we know.
Ornamental streams of energy burst forth from the earth’s core, blooming as they flow into the sky. Here, everything is interconnected in perpetual motion—both what we can see and what we can feel. All life is liberated energy, interacting within new ecosystems in Fiona’s landscapes. In these works—painted with rabbit-skin glue and pigment—we find ourselves in a cosmos that could be a mythical world from an undefined primordial past. Or perhaps we are witnessing life in a distant future, maybe in another galaxy, where humanity has adapted to new, caring natural laws.
In this world, people exist without longing for a body. They have transformed into sprouting faces, possibly a new species, peacefully floating through blue oceans while life unfolds, blossoms, and disappears around them. Fiona’s worlds and their inherent beings are inextricably linked in an organic flow marked by deep care for one another and the shared universe. They exist only through close connection—so close, in fact, that their fingers grow together.
Fiona’s universe can be experienced as a dream, one less concerned with possessing the material and more with freely imagining and creating a fully realized universe in constant motion, where all organisms, large and small, care for one another.
Alongside the eight paintings, the exhibition includes two sculptural folding screens with imagery on both sides. In addition, two unique, sewn costumes will serve as living sculptures during the opening performance Creatures of Silence, featuring performers Sofie Sahlholdt and Antonia Harke. Throughout the opening on August 18, the space will be inhabited by these two beings/living sculptures—unlike traditional sculptures, they are in motion and thus alive rather than static and eternal.
The performance can be experienced as an encounter between body and painting—between physical reality and fiction—and as an attempt at a different kind of sensing. What happens in that meeting—will the boundary between the world of the paintings and our own be broken? Is it possible to perceive the world from a non-human perspective? To become something else?