Morris (Kopie), Sarah Precious Stone [Sound Graphs], 2018
zweiteilig, Gesamtmaß: 152,5 x 305 cm © The artist Courtesy: Courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, New York Photo: Archiv Petzel Galler, New York

About the work

A few years ago, Sarah Morris was looking for a concise male voice for the soundtrack to a screenplay, which led to contact and collaboration with filmmaker Alexander Kluge.

For the “Sound Graphs” series, Morris used these same recordings, which she transformed into audiovisual codes that extend across the screen as a painterly translation of Kluge's voice in strong colors.

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About the artist

born 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, Großbritannien
lives and works in New York und London

From 1985 to 1989, Morris studied at Brown University in Providence, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1999 to 2000 she lived in Berlin on a scholarship and worked at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Morris is best known for her abstract geometric, brightly colored paintings and murals, which deal thematically with economics, complex networks and systems, and architecture.

 

“Few artists have explored urban infrastructures, social milieus, power and powerlessness in their work as intensively as Sarah Morris. The paintings refer to unconscious geometries and present themselves as capitalist echoes of consumer and luxury goods. Since the mid-1990s, she has been translating modern everyday life, consumerist routines and the web of myths and conspiracy theories surrounding cities into abstract, monumental pattern paintings in bright colors. In extensive urban planning and sociological studies as well as countless conversations, the artist, who lives in New York, deals with people from different social classes”


in: Angela Stief, in: Kunst der Gegenwart. Albertina modern, Albertina & Albertina klosterneuburg, p. 468