Artist talk: Cäcilia Brown

Cäcilia Brown’s work deals with the structures and hierarchies of public space. She chooses the medium of sculpture with its own structures and hierarchies. Some of which are rather profane- weight, volume, colour, dirt.

The artist welds and casts concrete, steel, plaster, clay into objects that remind us of elements of the public realm- rubbish bins, fences, gates, walls, weights…Destructive acts like burning, or throwing something out the window are as much part of her methods as are copying and archiving

Despite the massive materials that formally characterise Brown’s oeuvre her works have a fugitive, ephemeral character, and very often incorporate found or collected elements. They build bridges to an ordinary world outside the art space, quote it and refer to it. It almost seems as if she were setting up a trajectory that can, not least, be found in the artist’s titles, e.g.: From the series of working girls: the authority, the unionist; Entglasung (Devitrification); Intercity. Welcome to Parliament) (…)

She calls her spontaneous, almost intuitive approach ‘the translation of material logic’

The event, held by Sculpture 1 studio, will be in English.