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Cecilia Lundqvist
Area of Use
Animation | dv | black and white | 5:12 | Sweden | 2009
The video Area of Use is an illustration of a housewife?s inner thoughts about alternative ways of using her most common working tools. It is also a manifestation of a sealed existence that exposes a mind which gives a sense of being trapped in a treadmill.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artistic education: 1999-00 Royal University Collage of Art, Postgraduate, Stockholm, Sweden 1994-99 University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Art Department, Stockholm, Sweden Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Around 25 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2009, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.