VISUAL ART

Cecilie Gravesen is Danish, UK-based visual artist and curator working across installation and film, using an experimental documentary approach that draws on real events, dialogues and encounters. Her work engages intimately with objects and the spirits that inhabit them - found, ritual, historical and commodified - exploring how histories and systems of value are embodied in things.

Her practice has a longstanding engagement with heritage, community and archives, often playfully unsettling the ways histories are collected, interpreted and reproduced. She has worked closely with community groups and heritage professionals, and has held honorary research affiliations with the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Exhibitions and screenings include David Roberts Art Foundation, Camden Arts Centre, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre and Shanghai Power Station of Art. Her work is held in the collections of Crafts Council UK and Museum Stavanger. Artist residencies include the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies and Nœstved Print Studio for Artists.

Alongside her art practice, Cecilie curates, writes and produces projects with artists, studios and commissioners. See curatorial work.

Contact: c (at) ceciliegravesen.com

Image: Cecilie Gravesen with Robin Stein, Pattern Language / The Superstore Ladies, 2019. Installation view, Billboard Istanbul, 2020. Photo © Zuhal Koçan.

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