Chicago

A painter and filmmaker, Sarah Morris worked on rigorous, seductive abstract pictorial and cinematographic compositions during the 90s, investigating the transformation of contemporary metropolitan scenarios through architecture. Along with Chicago constitutes the last leg of a wide-range project of city portraits developed by the artist during the last few years. 8 years in the making, the film centers around the city’s most famous building, the John Hancock Center, a pioneering multifunctional skyscraper, home to apartments, offices, shops and the highest swimming pool in the USA. In Morris’ cinematic narrative, which benefits from Liam Gillick’s musical collaboration, the Center becomes an observation point on the teeming urban and social macrocosm and microcosm, and looks, due to two huge antennae at the summit, like an enormous insect, which inspired the artist in her Antenna painting series.