Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents ALL SYSTEMS FAIL, the most comprehensive exhibition of the American artist Sarah Morris to date. The retrospective showcases a total of over 180 artworks; paintings, her entire cinematic production, drawings, film posters and sculpture provide an overview of thirty years of the artist’s groundbreaking work.
Since the 1990s, Morris has produced a large body of work which reflects her interest in networks, typologies, globalization, architecture and the metropolis. Through her use of both reality and vivid abstraction, Morris creates a new language of place and politics. She sees her paintings as self-generating, open to interpretation, motion and change, giving the viewer a heightened sense that they are part of a larger system.
Creating a virtual architecture and language of forms, the work incorporates a wide array of subjects ranging from multinational corporations, architecture, generic stem cell technology, Academy Awards, the Olympics, transportation networks, mapping, lunar cycles, museums, printing presses, factories of all types, fashion and mail systems to name just a few. Politics, power, and economy as well as advertising and entertainment are encoded into the aesthetics of her canvases.
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