KAUCYILA BROOKE
Kaucyila Brooke is an artist / photographer based in Los Angeles. Brooke’s multidisciplinary practice addresses the politics of cultural production and sexual representation. In diverse narrativized and serial formats—including large-scale photomontages, photo novellas, and photographic archives—she reevaluates the status of the photograph as object.
Her work has been shown in a number of international galleries and institutions, including solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, (2013, 2010); The Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2012); Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna (2006, 2008, 2012); Silberkuppe, Berlin (2009); Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation/ Forum für Fotographie, Cologne; Andersen-s Contemporary, Copenhagen, (2006), NAK, Aachen, Germany; Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany (2005); plattform, Berlin (2004), Art Resources Transfer, New York (2001,1999).
Kaucyila Brooke has been a member of the faculty in the Program in Photography and Media at the California Institute of the Arts since 1992.
After Morandi and after GLH (photography)
” I had been looking at Giorgio Morandi’s paintings of vases and I had been thinking about my white vase collection. I photographed the vases in different arrangements on a white background.
They’re white vases on white. I titled the project After Morandi and after GLH.
GLH were my dad’s initials. It was after he died that I made the work.
The After Morandi is the after of homage.
The after of GLH is literally the time period after he died.
It’s two different kinds of afters.
The white on white represents death to me, the bright accumulation of all colors I associate with leaving this earthly paradise”.
