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Cecilia Vissers
Born 1964
Beverwijk, Netherlands
Lives & Works
Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands
The experience fundamental to Cecilia Visser's works, is that of the hiker walking the narrow path on top of a mountain ridge, left and right of her the abyss of space, or along the cliffs of a rough coastal line, the endless expanses above the ocean at her side. Any hiker knows what Cecilia Vissers knows: vantage points like these change an endlessly detailed landscape into an arrangement of volumes so that even light and atmosphere become as if solid. The illusion that you can touch anything at any distance is paramount. Doing so is dangerous, the sort of danger that makes your fingers tingle, because you can hardly resist the impulse to touch these grand images that unfold around you, so near, so far. Only the weight of your feet prevents you from dissolving into it all.
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