Photo Oxford Festival Talk: Aliki Braine in conversation with Rodrigo Orrantia: 6 - 8 pm
Photo Oxford Festival Talk
We are delighted to present an evening talk at the gallery with contemporary artist Aliki Braine, in conversation with Rodrigo Orrantia, curator of her solo exhibition 'Into The Woods' at Meakin + Parsons x Hannah Payne. Please join us for this very special evening celebrating the artist's body of work in Into The Woods.
Free. Seating is limited. Read more and register at the link below.
About Aliki Braine
Aliki Braine was born in Paris in 1976. She has an MFA from The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, an MA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London and an MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art where she was awarded a distinction for her masters in 17th century painting. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in London, Birmingham, Vienna,Madrid and Paris. Her work is featured in a number of recent publications including British Art and the Environment, Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède (Routledge, 2022), Pauline Martin,L’Évidence, le vide, la vie; La photographie face à ses lacunes (Ithaque Editions, 2017) and Robert Shore,Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera (Laurence King Pub, 2014.) Aliki is an associate lecturer for Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London and a regular lecturer for Christie’s Education, the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery. She lives and works in London.
About Rodrigo Orrantia
Rodrigo Orrantia is an art historian and independent curator, interested in expanded practices of photography also working with sculpture, performance and localised installation. Orrantia believes that exhibitions and publications are devices for experimentation and debate, where curators can work with artists from the outset of the project in a collaborative way. He is particularly interested in the connections between photography, geography and place, especially the topical relationship between nature and humans in the geologic time of the Anthropocene. Following this interest, in 2017 he was awarded Format Festival’s Habitat Award for an exhibition project entitled Modern Ornithologies, an experimental installation featuring a selection of photo books and films placed within the collection of Pickford’s House Museum in Derby.
In 2020 he was the winner of the Landskrona Foto Festival Open Call, with an exhibition project entitled The State of Things, another experimental installation, this time inviting five artists to respond to the architecture and history of this Swedish town. Orrantia believes that contemporary photographic practices interested in the materiality of the medium could also be interested in its history, and certainly in its many adjacent worlds, from printmaking through to sculpture, film and video, and live performance.
Orrantia holds an MA Photography: Contemporary and Historical, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, 2011, and an MA History and Theory of Art and Architecture, National University of Colombia, 2004.