SIGH / Kim Morgan / 2016 Artpace
Artist Kim Morgan is interested in human relationships as they exist between things, other people, and places. She explores this by focusing on materiality, thinking about the role that tactility plays in our heavily virtual and digitized culture. Morgan has most recently focused this investigation on blood, of which she writes, “Blood is the material fabric of our life and therefore we have a profound and dynamic relationship to it. It has medical, social, and political meanings and consequences. Blood is woven into our language to define relationships (blood ties, blood feuds, blood brothers) and features in religious and pagan rituals. As a material, blood is complex, vibrant, valuable, and abject.” Morgan uses the duality that blood represents—as cultural, sustainable, personal—in her new installation sigh.
Artist website: http://kimmorgan.ca/sigh/
Video by UFOclub Creative LLC / Sharad Kant Patel / Colorist Assistant: Olive Cox-Leow
Shot at Artpace in San Antonio
Curated by Denise Markonish / Curator Mass Moca
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