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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS IN THE PROJECTION
ROOM SARAH MORRIS: CAPITAL
June 22 - September 8, 2002
MEDIA PREVIEW
Friday, June 21, 10am
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe presents SARAH MORRIS: CAPITAL, a 16mm/DVD projection,
June 22 - September 8, 2002, with a free public opening reception Friday,
June 21, 6-7 pm.
Sarah Morris's film, Capital, was shot on location in Washington, D.C.
on September 11 - 14, 2000. It shows fast-paced sequences of political icons:
the Mall, the White House Press Office, the World Bank, uniformed members
of the Secret Service, the Presidential motorcade, the Watergate Complex,
the Kennedy Center, the Department of Energy, the J. Edgar Hoover Building,
among many others. Capital continues Morris's investigation of the
way we decode and therefore begin to understand the built world around us.
She is interested in our intuitive relationship to architectural statements.
In Capital, an intangible craving for power and money, mingled with
a hint of widespread paranoia exemplified by the political process, becomes
a metaphor for the architecture that structures our daily lives.
Capital is an ironic example of life mimicking art. Filmed exactly
one year before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
the film has the quality of a premonition and warning of imminent danger.
Today, heightened national security forbids outsiders access to many of the
places and types of meetings recorded in Capital. As a result, the
film is one of the last documents of a political structure that directly affected
our lives forever, a realization that is more poignant in the wake of September
11, 2001 than Sarah Morris could have imagined when she filmed Capital.
Sarah Morris is also known
for her paintings, which magnify and abstract fragments of buildings, electronic
signage, and constructed faŤades. In each work she attempts to create a new
abstract language that is in tune with our constantly changing attitude toward
the ways our cities are constructed. Glimpses of a place in its most extreme
form are captured and reworked on canvas, leaving viewers with an open matrix
of ideas, images, and expressions of ideology normally repressed in straight
documentation of our surroundings.
American born in 1967, Sarah Morris now lives and works in New York and London.
She attended Brown University, Cambridge University, the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program, and in 1999-2000 was an American Academy-Philip
Morris Award, Berlin Prize Fellow. Her work has been the subject of numerous
group and solo exhibitions, including those at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston; White Cube, London; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New
York; and SITE Santa Fe during the Fourth International Biennial.
Concurrently with SARAH MORRIS: CAPITAL, SITE Santa Fe presents John
F. Simon, Jr., a survey of two- and three-dimensional digital art works,
and Gary Simmons, a seven-year survey of approximately 35 drawings,
photographs, sculptures, and videos.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
- 7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students, and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This press release is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
VISUALS AVAILABLE
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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