Alberte Harboe Westergaard
For Onyx, Alberte Harboe Westergaard (b. 1990) presents new paintings that focus on the drama in the complicated fates of the women that came before her. The works are abstractions over the play “Blood Wedding” written by Féderico García Lorca in 1933, in which the protagonist is being liberated from the suppression of a forced marriage, through the death of both the husband and the lover. Painted with thin, very dry, and carefully detailed layers of oil paint, the characters almost seem to dissolve or slowly appear from their matte surroundings. They are mystical, hiding behind their veil, their masks, their dresses.
Alberte Harboe Westergaard lives and works in Copenhagen and has studied at ENSAD Paris, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Funen Art Academy. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen; Wilson Saplana Gallery, Copenhagen; & Cassius&Co, London;
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