14 June – 16 August 2025
Curated by Brenda McParland
These Magnetic Magnitudes is a solo exhibition of new work of painting, textiles, ceramics and film by Cecilia Danell. In a practice which is rooted in materiality and process, the starting point for Danell’s work is a first-hand engagement with the landscape of the area in Sweden where she grew up. Bodily memories of moving through the places she depicts are mirrored in the physical endeavour of painting on a large scale, which creates its own spatial choreography. A new series of large paintings considers ideas around spectatorship and participation, inspired by the large nature dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. We are presented with scenes that invite the viewer to step into them, yet we’re prevented by the fact that it’s a 2D surface. Danell continuously points back to this push and pull between realism, abstraction and the materiality of paint itself.
