CIG HARVEY

“There is war. There is virus. In the time it took to write this sentence somebody died, somebody was born, a language disappeared, a mass shooting occurred, a forest burn begun, an insect crushed, an idea inched forward. My pictures are an urgent call to live. A primal roar. Be here, now. Experience this. Feel this. My pictures are of flowers, but they are not about flowers; they are about living and dying.”

Cig Harvey (b. 1973) is a British-born artist and writer living in Maine, USA. She works with large-format color photography and poetry. Her work is characterized by deep narrative power, saturated colors, and strong roots in nature, with a focus on human emotions and experiences.

Harvey lives on a farm in Maine with her husband Doug and daughter Scout. The slow passing of time and the natural surroundings of her rural home have made her alert to the magic in the mundane.

Harvey has published five sold-out books, including Blue Violet (2021), You an Orchestra You a Bomb (2017), and You Look at Me Like an Emergency (2012).

Her photographs and books are in the permanent collections of leading museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She is represented by galleries internationally and has exhibited at Paris Photo, Art Miami, and AIPAD over the past fifteen years.

This is Cig Harvey's first solo exhibition in Sweden, and we are delighted to present parts of her exhibition EAT FLOWERS here with us.

For more information about Cig Harvey and the exhibition, contact Ellen K Willas, who runs Willas Contemporary.