Sarah Morris
White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
17 April 2019 – 30 June 2019
One of the last exhibitions I visited recently was Sarah Morris at White Cube Bermondsey, and I wanted to share a few thoughts and photographs from the show with you.
The gallery is currently presenting the work of Sarah Morris (born 1967, UK), who lives and works in New York City. The exhibition, composed primarily of abstract paintings, reflects Morris’s fascination with networks, typologies, architecture, language, and the urban environment. Her work constantly plays with the viewer’s sense of visual recognition, referencing elements of architecture, the graphic identities of multinational corporations, the iconography of maps, GPS technology, and the movement of people within cities.
A highlight is her new series of Sound Graph paintings, which merge American abstraction, minimalism, and pop art. The forms are derived from audio recordings: speech patterns provide the structural basis for each composition. In the photos below, you’ll see me—the art blueberry—interacting with one of these works, Reality is its own ideology (Sound Graph). The sense of movement embedded in these paintings mirrors the cadence and rhythm of the audio recordings that inspired them.
The exhibition also includes a separate room featuring Morris’s first sculpture, What can be explained can also be predicted (2019). Comprised of modular glass tubes of varying heights and colours arranged on a vibrant plinth, it evokes city skyscrapers while simultaneously resembling a musical instrument. The result is a sculpture that is at once phallic, architectural, and playful—an embodiment of the structural and auditory elements Morris explores in her paintings.
Morris’s work is full of references to the contemporary city: a constantly evolving network of visual, social, and political connections that imbue urban life with vibrancy and energy, always opening space for change, innovation, and new perspectives.
Discover more about the exhibition and Sarah Morris’s work at White Cube Bermondsey: White Cube
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