The first commissioned artwork for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's permanent collection, Abu Dhabi was filmed in just more than a month towards the end of 2015 on and around National Day but the movie, Morris's 13th, was almost four years in the making.
Like Morris's other urban films, the New York artist has created works about Midtown Manhattan, where she lives, Washington, DC, Beijing, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, Abu Dhabi manages to depict the capital and the emirate from a somewhat uncanny insider-outsider perspective that not only testifies to the analytical intensity of her gaze, but to the depth and quality of her research. "I always start with conversations with people because I think that people are portals into a place, by reading and by listening to the books they talk about that are interesting," the artist tells me on the eve of Abu Dhabi Art.
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