Cecily Brown on Painting, Violence, and the Burkini Image
In a video interview with Marc-Christoph Wagner, Cecily Brown discusses her practice and the large triptych "Where, When, How Often and with Whom" (2017), featured in her solo exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, on view until March 10. The central image, balancing figuration and abstraction, was inspired by a 2016 news photograph of a Muslim woman being forced by four police officers to remove her burkini on a beach in Nice. Brown describes the image as violent and eloquent about contemporary times. She states that she has never considered painting cathartic, but rather a way to process things.
Key facts
- Cecily Brown is a British painter born in 1969.
- Her solo exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art runs until March 10.
- The interview was conducted by Marc-Christoph Wagner.
- The triptych 'Where, When, How Often and with Whom' was created in 2017.
- The painting references a 2016 news photograph from Nice, France.
- The photograph shows a Muslim woman being asked to remove her burkini by police.
- Brown describes the image as violent and eloquent about the times.
- Brown does not view painting as cathartic but as a way to process things.
Entities
Artists
- Cecily Brown
Institutions
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Artribune
Locations
- Copenhagen
- Denmark
- Nice
- France