You had another skin - the Super 8 series
EIGHT, Galway (solo). February/March 2011
"I held your hand. You had another skin. I believed all you told me"
- J.P Sartre, The Room
In October 2010 Cecilia travelled to Sweden and documented a number of semi-abandoned villages in rural areas, which resulted in the Super 8 film 'You had another skin'. These paintings are stills from the film; every building depicted is derelict, left behind to slowly decay while silence and lost ambitions turn Utopia into Dystopia. The title holds many meanings, including the proverbial act of shedding one's skin which points to a transition or reinvention, here seen in the transformation of a place. There is also the suggestion that the skin may act as a mask or 'persona', shrouding the real self, leading to the philosophical question of 'the Other' as being something different from us but also a possible aspect of the self - 'you had an-other skin'.
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