DARKNESS MOVES
Cecilia Westerberg’s first solo exhibition in Bernhard Knaus Gallery in Franfurt Germany is called Darkness Moves. The title refers to a poem written by the painter/poet Henri Michaux, and to the nature of war and loss explored in the poem.
Cecilia Westerberg works with movies as a thematically starting point, f.i. Andrei Tarkovskys war movie Ivan’s Childhood and Dr. Zhivago. Westerberg examines how our memory of a film is part of our collective image-bank and therefore collective memory. And at the same time is an entirely different part of our individual memory.This exhibition displays paintings and an animation. The paintings are inspired by Russian Andrei Tarkovsky’s debut movie Ivan’s Childhood (1962), an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy’s war-torn youth.
