Aliki Braine, Shuffle (After Mondrian Tableau II, 1921-25), II, 2021
Aliki Braine, Shuffle (After Mondrian Tableau II, 1921-25), II, 2021

HANNAH PAYNE ART is pleased to present a selection of works available from the Shuffle (adter Mondrian) series and 'Horizontal Shift'.

 

Aliki Braine has had two exceptional works selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 (13 June - 28 Aug)  — a thoroughly deserved achievement and exciting recognition of her distinctive and intellectually rich practice.

 

We are especially delighted to see Horizontal Shift included, a work we had the pleasure of exhibiting in Aliki's solo exhibition, Borrowed Landscapes, at Cromwell Place in 2024. 

Joining it is a work from Aliki's acclaimed Shuffle series, in which reproductions of Western European art historical imagery are cut, reconfigured and woven to create entirely new visual relationships. 

 

Aliki Braine’s works on paper repurpose cheaply printed images from 1960s and 70s albums of canonical western European artworks; in the case of Shuffle (after Mondrian Tableau II, 1921-25), the artist has woven together two reproductions of Mondrian’s Tableau II. Braine plays with the material nature of successive images – Mondrian’s painting, its printed reproduction, and the outcome of her own manipulations – to draw attention to the rhythmic dynamism and compositional mutability inherent in what we are often encouraged to see as fixed historical artefacts.
 

In the series entitled Horizontal Shift, Aliki reconfigures an ‘erroneous’ composition of a landscape by cutting out a section of the photographic image and ‘straightening’ the horizon. By printing the shifted cut-out and its surrounding image together, she transforms the experience of looking at the landscape, to find hidden geometries and - with the sharp sense of humour that defines her work - challenges the basis of the representation of the landscape and its undefiable horizon(tal) composition.

As with much of Aliki's practice, Horizontal Shift plays with the rules of the photographic process, rendering the voids left by the shift of the cut-out section in a deep black, balanced out by the white areas where the two negatives overlap. The result emphasises the idea of the ‘construction’ of the image and invites us, echoing the title of the work, to shift our preconceptions of the landscape genre.

 

Collectors intersted in securing works available by Aliki Braine are invited to get in touch with Hannah Payne: info@hannahpayneart.co.uk