Meet the Artist with Sayler/Morris

About this event

CPW, in partnership with Light Work, welcomes Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) to 'Meet the Artist' series. Sayler/Morris will present museum, an exhibition and photobook co-published by Gnomic Book and Light Work. The book and exhibition, made in collaboration with Christina Seely, consist of images made during the artists’ tenure as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, which coincided with the dismantling of the iconic dinosaur/fossil hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Granted rare access to the process of demolition, the artists photographed dinosaurs, dioramas, and displays as they were disassembled, crated up, and moved into storage. They also interviewed the museum’s paleontologists and scientific illustrator — whose work translates paleontological research into visual form — and photographed materials belonging to them. Collectively, these photographs reveal a museum not as a static repository of facts but as a place where knowledge is continually assembled, revised, and reimagined. The project is an anatomy of certainty and a portrait of knowledge under construction.

Following the presentation, Sayler/Morris will be signing copies of their book museum, which will be available for purchase.