{"id":17370,"date":"2026-10-19T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/featured-members\/cecilia-germain\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:22:57","slug":"cecilia-germain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/featured-members\/cecilia-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"iit-editorial-member\" aria-label=\"Cecilia Germain featured member profile\">\n <header class=\"iit-mem-hero\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">THE INSTITUTE FORUM \u00b7 FEATURED MEMBERS<\/p><div class=\"iit-mem-hero-grid\">\n <div class=\"iit-mem-headline\"><h1>Cecilia Germain<\/h1><p class=\"iit-mem-role\">Visual Artist \u00b7 Research-Led Practice<\/p><p class=\"iit-mem-lede\">Working with memory, bodies, plants and the histories that dominant accounts leave out.<\/p>\n <div class=\"iit-mem-actions\"><a class=\"iit-fm-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/messages\/?recipient=10\">MESSAGE CECILIA \u2192<\/a><a class=\"iit-fm-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/members\/cecilia\/\">VIEW MEMBER PROFILE \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div><figure class=\"iit-member-portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gibca.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/A-Mermaids-Tears-Are-Always-Blue-by-Cecilia-Germain_web-3-1024x683.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cecilia Germain professional image or selected-work visual\" \/><figcaption>A Mermaid&#8217;s Tears Are Always Blue; image courtesy of GIBCA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/header>\n <div class=\"iit-mem-body-grid\"><div class=\"iit-mem-storylist\"><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Biography<\/h2><p>Cecilia Germain is a Swedish-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Uppsala. A graduate of Konstfack, her practice encompasses photography, drawing, watercolour, performance, installation and olfactory or botanical materials. She investigates the relationships between histories of colonialism, public health, identity, grief and the possibilities of repair.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Philosophy &amp; approach<\/h2><p>Germain&#8217;s practice treats artistic form as a means of approaching forms of knowledge that are not always visible in conventional archives. Plants, scents, bodily experience, material traces and speculative narration can carry memories across geographies and generations. Her work is attentive to whose histories are authorised and whose may require other means of telling.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"iit-mem-story\"><h2>Selected work &amp; current practice<\/h2><p>Her work A Mermaid&#8217;s Tears Are Always Blue appeared in the 2021 G\u00f6teborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, where the sea is approached as an archive of displacement, violence and hope. Other work has explored embodied power relations through Carrying White Men and interdisciplinary initiatives connecting care, botany and historical inquiry. Public exhibitions and research events have situated her work across art, social histories and knowledge production.<\/p><\/section><\/div>\n <aside class=\"iit-mem-info\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">AT A GLANCE<\/p><h2>Main expertise<\/h2><p>Colonial histories, cultural memory and multisensory art<\/p><h2>Location<\/h2><p>Uppsala, Sweden<\/p><h2>Skills &amp; experience<\/h2><div class=\"iit-mem-chips\"><span>Visual art<\/span><span>Performance<\/span><span>Photography<\/span><span>Botanical and olfactory practice<\/span><span>Research-based art<\/span><span>Cultural history<\/span><\/div>\n <h2>Website &amp; channels<\/h2><div class=\"iit-mem-social\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibca.se\/gibca\/arkiv\/gibca-2021-the-ghost-ship-and-the-sea-change\/konstnarer\/cecilia-germain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main website \u2197<\/a><\/div>\n <\/aside><\/div><section class=\"iit-mem-sources\"><h3>Selected references<\/h3><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibca.se\/gibca\/arkiv\/gibca-2021-the-ghost-ship-and-the-sea-change\/konstnarer\/cecilia-germain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GIBCA artist profile \u2197<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skh.se\/english\/research\/seminar-series\/a-season-of-black-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stockholm University of the Arts \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n <footer class=\"iit-mem-footer\"><p class=\"iit-fm-eyebrow\">THE INTERESTING PART BEGINS BETWEEN PEOPLE<\/p><h2>There may be a good conversation here.<\/h2><p>Explore Cecilia&#8217;s work or connect within the Institute Forum. Direct messaging follows the member&#8217;s own privacy and connection permissions.<\/p><a class=\"iit-fm-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/messages\/?recipient=10\">START A PRIVATE CONVERSATION \u2192<\/a><a class=\"iit-fm-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/featured-members\/\">ALL FEATURED MEMBERS \u2192<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonial histories, cultural memory and multisensory art<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":17363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17370\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.instituteofinnertechnology.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}