Artist statement

I graduated from Chelsea College of Art, London, 1999 with a degree in painting. More recently I have concentrated on digital medias. My areas of interest include 2-D animation installations, video, artist books, drawing and painting. The use of line drawings is a method that runs through all of my work. Additionally, my approach to any new production is thematic.
In my work, I try to create openings/gaps into our personal and shared memories – which is one way of nudging to the accepted cultural norms involving time, identity and history.
Another of my concerns, and a theme that correlates to my fascination with Time, is the development of a narrative language; Time passing, moving in circles, or time that moves in a parallel world or passes in slow motion. Examples of some of the recurrent motifs I use in my investigations are: categories of Time that break up its’ linear course and those which are anchored and marked through the passing of generations. A special interest for me is the paradoxical juncture between linear time, which can be measured and sensual, emotional time which is purely subjective. The clash of ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ time.

Cecilia Westerberg