Writers and painters are both storytellers. Join two of today’s most vital artists — writer Rachel Cusk and visual artist Megan Rooney for a conversation across mediums and methods, as the two explore how images and narratives take form and shape one another.
Rooney will reflect on her process of creating characters for her paintings, while Cusk will explore her process of questioning the limits of language and turning to image-making patterns in prose. What can be gained by bridging the gulf between words and images?
About the speakers:
Rachel Cusk is the author of Parade, Second Place, the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life’s Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.
Megan Rooney is an enigmatic storyteller. Working across painting, installation and performance, she develops interwoven narratives within which the gestural body is a uniting thread. Her layered canvases—built through cycles of erasure and renewal—function as capsules of time and memory. Rooney’s work has been featured in solo museum exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; in a two-person show with Joan Mitchell at the Espace Louis Vuitton, Beijing; and in group shows at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Lyon Biennale; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Venice Biennale.
