Cecilia Edefalk, Another Movement, 2022 Museum Poster

Cecilia Edefalk often creates her paintings in series – frequently basing them on photographs, and repeating the same motif until the distinction between original and copy is blurred.

Cecilia Edefalk herself has described the series Another Movement as seven paintings in various sizes and where, in each painting, she returned to the original – a photograph from a women’s magazine, which she modified to emphasise the element she felt gave the photo its tension.

An ordinary commercial photo of a man rubbing sun lotion onto the back of a woman is the starting point for the paintings. The bottle with lotion is no longer present. The stiff, square figures stand out clearly against the intensely blue, uniform background. In a strange way, the figures seem to hover between sculptural volume and flat surface.

19.68 x 27.55 in
50 x 70 cm

© Cecilia Edefalk/Bildupphovsrätt 2022. Moderna Museet, Sweden.