Sarah Morris - Capital - Oktagon 2001

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Correspondence at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart-Berlin, 2001.
Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has been internationally recognized for her complex abstractions and films, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments. Morris views her paintings as parallels to her film – both trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both these media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary city and its architecturally encoded politics. Morris assesses what today’s urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces. Often, these non-narrative fictional analyses result in studies of conspiratorial power, structures of control, and the mapping of global socio-political networks.
Sarah Morris made the film “Capital” in Washington D.C. during the final days of the Clinton administration. It is a record of now unimaginable access to the center of power. “Capital” continues Morris’s investigation of the way we decode and therefore begin to understand the structured world around us.

GER - 26.3x23.5cm - hardcover - great condition