“Just for fun, The reward
After struggling with a complicated work these works appeared.
Joy

I painted these paintings being in the present enjoying pure oil color on the linen.
Soft kisses on a cheek. Creating unknown space and light.

The sun appeared when I painted a circle on the canvas.
Lightness, pleasure, delight”*

carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce Luz, an exhibition by Cecilia Edefalk. This will be the first solo exhibition of the artist in Spain.

One of Sweden’s most celebrated artists, Cecilia Edefalk’s intuitive and deeply personal practice often draws from things that she encounters in her everyday life — whether a field of dandelions, a novel, or memories of visiting a church in Italy. Edefalk’s approach fuses the intimate and the analytical. Her choice of topics often emerges from a rigorous, uncanny intuition that she hones to undertake serial explorations of a single motif, experimenting with duplication, scale, and installation. Edefalk views repetition as a means to express different ideas. She isolates transitory moments of perception, multiplying and dividing the forms that emerge from them, to create visionary meditations on nature, the mutability of time, and natural cycles of growth and decay.

* Fragments of thoughts written by Cecilia Edefalk, July 2023.