Rings, 2009

Part of Sarah Morris’s Beijing series, this edition was created shortly after the 2008 Olympic Games. For this series, Morris created abstract and vibrant geometric compositions to explore the Chinese capital’s rapid transformation, global visibility, urban landscape and sociopolitical dynamics. The interlocking circles that feature prominently in the Beijing works, including this edition, evoke both the Olympic rings and Beijing’s ring roads, symbolizing the city’s infrastructural and cultural intersections.
The edition was co-published with Monopol Magazine, Berlin.