Susan Morris

Résumé du livre

Bartha Contemporary presents Four Tapestries, a display of recent work by British artist Susan Morris. The show includes three new works from the Binary Tapestry: Sunshine series, each of which record the amount of daylight the artist was exposed to over the course of a single year (2010, 2011 and 2012). These will be shown alongside a fourth work that records her sleep/wake patterns, alongside concurrent light exposure, over a period of the same three years. The tapestries were woven directly out of data recorded on an Actiwatch, a scientific-medical device used to track disturbances in sleep that Morris has used in her work since 2005. Worn on the wrist, the Actiwatch preceded the now ubiquitous self-tracking devices, such as Fitbits and Apple watches, and initially could only record three weeks' worth of data at a time. Despite this limitation, Morris persisted, eventually making continuous recordings of up to five years to produce a large body of work collectively titled SunDial:Night Watch. -- https://www.barthacontemporary.com/shows-db/susan-morris-four-tapestries.