Cecilia Ömalm

Cecilia Ömalm's work is about proportions and our relationship to them. She wants to create opportunities to see something new, to step into something impossible, and for the viewer to take part in the artwork.

The digital photographic collages are descriptions of a state or a psyche, something indeterminate, suggestive, perhaps hallucinogenic. A world that oscillates between the fantastic and the
forbidden. She starts from old models and combines fragments in new contexts. It is about opposites; dead-living, dream-reality.

A work from the series ‘Malmaison’ has been purchased for the Moderna Museet collection. The works in the series depict halls, libraries, pavilions and other high-class environments. The title is taken from ‘Malmaison’ which was a palace belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte; literally translated it means ‘the evil house’. The artist's palace is an exquisite dream of evil, as we know from short stories by the Marquise de Sade and others. The atmosphere in the palace is dark and menacing, the rooms are empty but beautifully decorated.

Cecilia Ömalm is represented at Moderna Museet, Västerås konstmuseum and Statens Konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden).