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Ylva Ceder

Mildvinter

September 23 - October 23, 2021

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Mildvinter, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
150 x 200 cm / 59 x 78 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Skadedjur, 2021
Oil on Birch Panel 
81 x 122 cm / 31 x 48 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Myrmark, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
122 x 170 cm / 48 x 66 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Myrorna, 2021
Oil on Birch Panel 
82 x 122 cm / 32 x 48 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Nattfjäril, 2021 
Oil on Birch Panel 
89 x 122 cm / 35 x 48 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Skenfrukt, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
89 x 122 cm / 35 x 48 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Skyfall, 2019 
Oil on MDF 
200 x 207 cm / 78 x 81 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Vass, 2021 
Oil on Birch Panel 
110 x 81 cm / 43 x 31 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Stormen, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
145 x 122 cm / 57 x 48 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Värdfågel, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
122 x 92 cm / 48 x 36 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
7, 2021
Oil on Birch Panel 
134 x 110 cm / 52 x 43 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Bokskogen, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
122 x 162 cm / 48 x 62 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Gölgrodan, 2020
Oil on Birch Panel 
103 x 82 cm / 40 x 32 in 

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Handarbete #1, 2021
Pyrography on Wood
110 x 69 cm / 43 x 27 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder
Handarbete #2, 2021 
Pyrography on Wood 
116 x 159 cm / 45 x 62 in

Ylva Ceder

Ylva Ceder 
Handarbete #3, 2021
Pyrography on Wood 
116 x 110 cm / 45 x 43 in

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021 Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Mildvinter, 2021
Photo Jean-Baptiste Béranger

About

Wetterling Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Mildvinter, Ylva Ceder’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery.  

Characteristics of Ylva Ceder’s paintings are motifs or quiet rooms, with a feeling that someone just left. Human presence is a sensation, not of a body, but in the form of strokes of light or an open door. With an attentive eye, Ceder conducts extensive research before painting. She often starts from travel memories; most have gone to the Middle East. Prevented from traveling due to the ongoing pandemic, Ceder has looked inward before this exhibition and started from internal considerations. Where realism previously characterized Ceder’s work, something else has taken shape here. A new and own place has come alive in the paintings, where something magical might happen but melancholy still weighs heavily.

Even though the interior motifs have taken the greatest place in Ceder’s art, nature is always present. Through an open window, blue mountains and lush greenery can be seen. The light of nature outside contrasts with the indoor lighting of the rooms. In the paintings where the relationship is the opposite, where nature takes the greatest place, it still always exists in relation to human presence. In the exhibition, Mildvinter, Ceder’s interior have been populated by nature. The reality is no longer clear, one can find themselves in a fluid state between outside and inside. Like murals or shadows, trees, twigs, and grass stand out against the beautifully painted wall surfaces. Textile patterns consists of insects and animals. In the exhibition’s title work, a sparse spruce forest stands out against a plastered house façade.

In conjunction to the exhibition, a book will be published, presenting two series of work by Ceder: Mildvinter and Ängder. For this publication, Ceder has selected poems by the poet and Swedish Academy Member Jila Mossaed.

Ceder was born in 1976 in Lund, Sweden. She graduated from Konstfack in 2007 and has since exhibited internationally as well as around Sweden, including solo exhibition at Hälsinglands Museum, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall and Kristinehamns Konstmuseum to name a few. Her works are represented in private and public collections, including Malmö Art Museum and Katrineholm Konsthall. She lives and works in Stockholm.