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The Wall: Cece Philips

Apr 23 — Jun 7, 2025 | Brussels

Opening on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 5 to 9 pm

Cece Philips’ paintings are an ode to looking and being looked at. Her work is part of a long-standing tradition of depicting interiors, from the domestic scenes of the Dutch Golden Age to Félix Vallotton. Full of windows and doors, her work hides as much as it reveals, hinting at a story but leaving the viewer the pleasure of filling in the details. Using light to suggest mood and narrative, her paintings glow with the sublime loneliness of Hopper, reworked with a Woolfian sensibility. 

Philips has a cerebral approach to painting. Her process often begins through an engagement with her many influences, rooting her work in art history, the work of contemporary artists, film, archival material, literature, and criticism. This assembly of works is the product of several months of exploration without a specific goal, an inventory of the artist’s mind. Philips found a certain freedom in working without a defined framework- with all the possibilities of wandering somewhere you’ve only been before with a specific destination in mind. Working in an increasingly instinctive way, surprises began to emerge. 
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Selected artworks

  • Cece Philips,                                      After Curtain Call, 2025

    Cece Philips After Curtain Call, 2025

    Oil on canvas
    150 x 100 cm
    59 x 39 1/2 in

  • Cece Philips,                                      Quiet Interior, 2025

    Cece Philips Quiet Interior, 2025

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 75 cm
    75 x 29 1/2 in

  • Cece Philips,                                      Nourishing Loneliness, 2025

    Cece Philips Nourishing Loneliness, 2025

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 120 cm
    75 x 47 in

  • Cece Philips,                                      The Balcony, 2025

    Cece Philips The Balcony, 2025

    Oil on canvas
    100 x 80 cm
    39 1/2 x 31 1/2 in