![Silence (Project for a Library) , 2020, Six Jacquard Tapestries, Cotton and polyester yarn, [each] 65 x 90 cm © Susan Morris](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686d401c6efc130268642501/98175dfc-37f4-4cff-ae4c-567687d99e81/TEFAF+INSTAL-1.jpg)
Tefaf Showcase 2022
It is a great pleasure to present works by three contemporary artists at Tefaf Showcase. We choose to exhibit pieces by Jill Baroff, Clay Ketter, and Susan Morris at this unique platform, all long-term collaborators of our gallery.
The works exhibited are the product of extensive research and are made using various media. The source for some of these works teeter on the edge between science and art, evolving from large data sets. Indeed, all works capture an element of time and are informed by natural phenomena.
Susan Morris’s tapestries depict sound recordings modulated using algorithms or display data collected using an Actiwatch, a tool employed by chronobiologists. The artist arranges the data following principles set out by scientific methodology or structures outlined by John Cage in his Lecture on Nothing. The computerised data was then entered into the first binarily programmed industrial machine: a Jacquard loom, which produced these sensual tapestries.
Extract from TEFAF catalogue, including essay, ‘Inlines’, by Rye Dag Holmboe, originally published in Silence (on Prepared Loom), 2022
Link to full catalogue here.
