Bundanon

Sara Morawetz is a conceptual artist whose research-based, interdisciplinary practice reflects critically and poetically on the matter and methods of science. Interested in the systems and structures that shape how we see and what we know, her work interrogates scientific and cultural apparatus that convey precision, accuracy and determinacy, yet remain slippery, speculative and whimsical when ‘tested in the field.’

Her projects involve collaborations with scientists from MIT, NASA and NIST, and her work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museé des Arts et Métiers, Australian Consulate-General New York, RAPID PULSE, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and Dominik Mersch Gallery. Sara was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and has received numerous awards and prizes including ‘the churchie’ National Emerging Art Prize, the Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship, the Marten Bequest Scholarship, as well as project funding from Creative Australia. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Forbes, Scientific American, Aesthetica, Artist Profile, Prime: Arts Next Generation (Phaidon) and Documents of Contemporary Art: WALKING (Whitechapel Gallery / MIT Press).

In Residence at Bundanon

Having returned to Australia after a decade abroad, my residency at Bundanon will explore the notion of ‘homecoming.’ Undertaken in the first months of my re-entry –– when my sense of distance and displacement are still keenly felt –– I hope to encounter the familiar with fresh and critical eyes and consider how ways of seeing and knowing place have shifted by ‘moving away’ and are recalibrated through the act of ‘return.’