“Making the most of Cromwell Place’s proximity to V&A South Kensington, 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”
— Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne Gallery.
Image credit: (detail) Aliki Braine, ‘Horizontal Shift (Landscape 1)’, 2023, courtesy of Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne, copyright the artist.
