Through rigorous experimentation with photography and its essential quality as a medium which can ‘borrow’ and reproduce images, the different series which are included in this exhibition examine and subvert the traditional representation of landscape.
Borrowed Landscapes, the second solo show with Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne gallery, guest curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, focuses on artist and art historian Aliki Braine’s interest in the representation of landscape in western art. Making the most of Cromwell Place’s proximity to the V&A, Braine draws inspiration from a selection of works in the collection, as well as working directly with found facsimile prints of celebrated landscape artists such as Corot, Constable and Jacob van Ruisdael.
Through rigorous experimentation with photography and its essential quality as a medium which can ‘borrow’ and reproduce images, the different series which are included in this exhibition examine and subvert the traditional representation of landscape. Using artistic devices that have become synonymous with her work - cutting, punching out, folding and layering - Braine reconfigures her own and appropriated images to create these ‘borrowed landscapes’, inviting us to look at art, but also the world around us in a different way.
Image credits:
Top: ALIKI BRAINE, Horizontal Shift (Landscape 1), 2023, Black and white photograph from hole-punched and rearranged negative, 86 x 100 cm, Edition 1/3
ALIKI BRAINE, Borrowed Landscape I, 2023, Colour photograph from cut and repositioned negative. Unique Print
21 x 25 cm, Unique Prints (+1A/P)
Aliki Braine | Borrowed Landscapes
Curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, hosted by Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne gallery, at Cromwell Place.
13 – 17 March 2024. Private View: Tuesday 12 March 6 – 8 pm.
Exhibtion Talks and Tours: Thursday 14 March, 2 pm
Walking Tour of Borrowed Landscapes with artist and art historian Aliki Braine.
Saturday 16 March, 11 am
Aliki Braine In Conversation with Dr Caroline Molloy, followed by a walk to the V&A museum
