SARAH MORRIS : MONARCH
Since the mid nineties, artist Sarah Morris has produced a large body of work using both painting and film, which create a new language of place and politics. ‘Monarch’ is a 54 meter long train that crosses the Swiss Alps and connects Montreux with Zweisimmen. The train is transformed and occupied with Morris’ signature colors and forms. She utilizes the train’s inherent motion through the landscape to play with the notion of erasure, camouflage, motion, visibility, and the “illusion of destination”. Morris describes the artwork as a “transportive vehicle to film a thought in action and my version of a caterpillar of the Monarch butterfly.”
