Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has been an internationally
recognized painter and filmmaker, known for her complex abstractions,
which play with architecture and psychology of urban environments.
Morris has always been interested in exploring means of communication.
Architecture is just one such vehicle. Morris' films operate between
documentary, the biography of a city, non-narrative fiction and sites
of production and leisure.
Morris uses a conceptual strategy of duality in her films, which
investigate both the surface of a city - its architecture and geography
- as well as its 'interior': the psychology of its inhabitants and key
players. To do this, Morris employs very different kinds of
cinematography - from documentary recording to apparently narrative
scenarios - which work as a method of visual distraction, a way of
exploring the urban environment, and more particularly its issues of
social power and representation.
Born in the U.K. in 1967, Sarah Morris lives and works in New York. She
attended Brown University, Cambridge University, and the Whitney Museum
of American Art's Independent Study Program. She received the Joan
Mitchell Foundation Painting Award in 2001, and in 1999-2000 was an
American Academy Award, Berlin Prize Fellow.