The collaborative duo work with a variety of media to deepen engagement with natural and social ecologies
Sayler/Morris' (Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris) artistic projects involve interdisciplinary research followed by the creation of still and moving images in the field. In making finished works with these images, sometimes combining them with archival images and objects, they strive to represent their own engagement with the poetics of relation of a given place, and invite viewers to forge their own such engagement.
Their last several projects featured places as much allegorical as geographical–the American West, the American River, and the Amazon.
Their creations investigate contemporary issues such as the climate crisis. The duo believe that their artistic work is also activism, and choose subjects that have geographical and symbolic significance.
Sayler/Morris work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Belvedere Museum, the Museum of Capitalism and the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art.