Curated by Sabine Folie and Ilse Lafer

“BE a place, PLACE an image, and IMAGINE a poem” are lines of verse taken from one of Ree Morton’s notebooks. A repository of her thinking, the notebooks offer an unexpectedly intimate way to get close to a figure who died in 1977 at the age of forty-one, early in both life and career. A fierce, generous, and unique voice, Morton produced affectively complex, gendered engagements with post-Minimalism and Conceptualism. This survey of some 150 works, accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Manuela Ammer, João Ribas, and the curators, will feature early drawings and paintings, large-scale works on paper, and five spatial-architectural installations. It will also include information on work lost or never made, as detailed in Morton’s journals. For Morton, whose work often embodied speculation on alternate futures and distant places, these absences, however, would not be seen as a loss.

— Johanna Burton