Exhibition in Berlin: Cecile Belmont
“THE SAME PIECE OF LAND UNDER OUR FEET” AT GENERAL PUBLIC IN BERLIN – Germany
Opening: Friday, March 08, 2013
Exhibition with photographies and embroideries on the former site of the Atlantic Wall in Norway by French/German based artist Cecile Belmont
A cooperation between General Public and fluctuating images
Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund
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Tellevik, detail
170 x 150 cm, thread on fabric -
panorama #16
The exhibition project THE SAME PIECE OF LAND UNDER OUR FEET by Cécile Belmont combines in an specific manner different media and historical research on memory and landscape based on the former site of the Atlantic Wall in Norway. (…) Cécile Belmont’s capacity of showing the presence of absence and her specific use of media leds to an unconventional approach. The former function of the Wall is absent now but still surrounding the bunker architecture in the landscape. Her embroidery is done with both, aggression and softness, attacking, caressing and transforming this architecture in its specific Norwegian landscape. (Cornelia and Holger Lund)
click on the link below to see by yourself how powerful Cecile’s embroideries are. This work is one of her best. The combination photo + embroideries is perfect. Each fabric panels appear as injured by thread that circulate through its the “skin” . Of course, they notify the wounds of war. The photographs show places where these injuries were made. Those panels shown are nothing but staggering! BCh
https://www.cecilebelmont.com/main/yeah/the%20same%20piece%20of%20land%20under%20our%20feet.html
