Sarah Morris

Born in 1967, in United Kingdom
Lives and works in Long Island City (United States)

Anna Gaskell

Since the end of the 1990s, Sarah Morris has been developing a dual vision of urban spaces and architecture through her paintings and films, forming a body of work that reflects hyper-modernity. Morris’ films are set in specific social and urban contexts, focusing on well-known places.

Biography

The formality of the composition, framing, colours and visual dynamic are accentuated by the music of artist Liam Gillick. “The images in my films always play with concepts of the spectacle, of the commodity, of political power or power at large. The images use and play with a vocabulary of propaganda, so in a way the music becomes sutured to the image,” explains the artist. “As in all my films, the music is written by Liam Gillick and is not composed for the images. What Liam creates are units of music, a series of modalities autonomous from the images in their production. Improvisation is at play on many levels. Sometimes the music goes against the image and sometimes it goes with the image. This is up to me. It works like modalities in psychology. It is sort of an alchemy. There is an aspect of quotation in my films, like out-takes of a political unconscious of forms. In a way the images are already familiar to you even if you have never seen them like this before,” continues Morris.

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Bibliographic resources

Bechtler, Cristine ; Obrist, Hans Ulrich. An open system meets an open system : Sarah Morris and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation. Wien : Springer, 2013. (Art and architecture in discussion).

Maraniello, Gianfranco ; Museo d'Arte Moderna (Bologna) ; Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt, Main)... [et al.]. Sarah Morris - Beijing : [publ. on the occasion of the exhibitions « Sarah Morris - China 9, Liberty 37 », MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, May 26 - July 26, 2009 ; « Sarah Morris - Gemini Dressage », MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, May 30 - August 30, 2009 ; « Morality », Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Autumn 2009 - Summer 2010]. Köln : König, 2009.

Morris, Sarah ; Gianfranco, Maraniello ; Museo d'Arte Moderna (Bologna). Sarah Morris : Beijing [exhibition, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, May 26 - July 26, 2009]. Köln : Verlag der Buchhandkung Walther König, 2009.

Mühling, Matthias ; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau (Munich, Allemagne). 1972, Sarah Morris : [Ausstellung, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München , 25 April - 3 August 2008]. Köln : Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008.

Bracewell, Michael ; Winkelmann, Jan. Sarah Morris : Modern Worlds. Dijon : le Consortium ; Leipzig : Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst ; Oxford : Museum of modern art, 1999.

In The Collection

Strange Magic, 2014

Sarah Morris

Exhibition of the Collection

From 27 October 2014 to 25 November 2014

Inaugural Hang

Curated to complement Frank Gehry’s architecture, the first hang displays a selection of emblematic works from the four themes of the collection (Contemplative, Pop, Expressionist, Music/Sound) by Christian Boltanski, Pierre Huyghe, Bertrand Lavier, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte. As part of his commission for the auditorium, one room is dedicated to the works of Ellsworth Kelly.

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