Cecilie E. Åserud
Photographic print on cotton paper
Edition 1/5 + 1 A.P.
Signed
Size h 37 × w 37 cm
Other sizes in this edition h 57 × w 57 and h 90 × w 90 cm
Norwegian title: Salatblader
Series: Afterthoughts
Year: 2022
What happens to the old and wrinkly ones? The items we leave in the cupboard for too long? Are they entirely without purpose? Not worth a second glance? Cecilie discovered that the family's storage room is the perfect place to create weird fates out of organic material, such as vegetables, fruits and plants. Rather than discarding these dried-out shapes, she rediscovers them in total darkness. Cecilie is painting them with light from her torch and making them into 21st century still lives.
Observation from gallerist Christine Munch:
I want to share with you the thoughts I had the first time I saw Cecilie E. Åserud's photo of two beautiful lettuce leaves.
The leaves stands closely together. The twisted shapes and the "long hair", or is it a shawl, make me think that they are women. One salad is bent down towards the other, who in turn looks at the other one – in my mind – with a gentle gaze.
What is happening in that bulge on the tall lettuce, which is now a woman in my thoughts? And it was then, perhaps because I first saw this motif we were in the Advent season, that the story of the aging Eliabet from the Gospel of John took shape in the photograph.
I know that Cecilie did not have this in mind when she made the photo of the two lettuces. But that is precisely the case. Everyone looks at motifs from their own experiences, memories and points of view. To me this is Elizabeth from the biblical story, who is visiting her relative Mary, to share the joy of pregnancy. Most likely I am the only one that experience this when looking at this photo. What do you experience?
To me Elizabeth is the one who bends down and listens to the tall and young Mary's belly. She wants to hear the heartbeat from the expected child. Detached from the biblical text, this is what I remembered, just: "For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy." And so the two lettuce leaves, for me, have become incredibly close. To me they are the two mothers Elizabeth and Mary.
Cecilie E. Åserud
Photographic print on cotton paper
Edition 1/5 + 1 A.P.
Signed
Size h 37 × w 37 cm
Other sizes in this edition h 57 × w 57 and h 90 × w 90 cm
Norwegian title: Salatblader
Series: Afterthoughts
Year: 2022
What happens to the old and wrinkly ones? The items we leave in the cupboard for too long? Are they entirely without purpose? Not worth a second glance? Cecilie discovered that the family's storage room is the perfect place to create weird fates out of organic material, such as vegetables, fruits and plants. Rather than discarding these dried-out shapes, she rediscovers them in total darkness. Cecilie is painting them with light from her torch and making them into 21st century still lives.
Observation from gallerist Christine Munch:
I want to share with you the thoughts I had the first time I saw Cecilie E. Åserud's photo of two beautiful lettuce leaves.
The leaves stands closely together. The twisted shapes and the "long hair", or is it a shawl, make me think that they are women. One salad is bent down towards the other, who in turn looks at the other one – in my mind – with a gentle gaze.
What is happening in that bulge on the tall lettuce, which is now a woman in my thoughts? And it was then, perhaps because I first saw this motif we were in the Advent season, that the story of the aging Eliabet from the Gospel of John took shape in the photograph.
I know that Cecilie did not have this in mind when she made the photo of the two lettuces. But that is precisely the case. Everyone looks at motifs from their own experiences, memories and points of view. To me this is Elizabeth from the biblical story, who is visiting her relative Mary, to share the joy of pregnancy. Most likely I am the only one that experience this when looking at this photo. What do you experience?
To me Elizabeth is the one who bends down and listens to the tall and young Mary's belly. She wants to hear the heartbeat from the expected child. Detached from the biblical text, this is what I remembered, just: "For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy." And so the two lettuce leaves, for me, have become incredibly close. To me they are the two mothers Elizabeth and Mary.
