Maureen Paley is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Morgan Fisher following on from his screening at the gallery in 2013.
 
"My father taught me photography in 1955, when I was twelve years old. I made my first movies (they were conventional home movies) with a Brownie 8mm camera in 1956. I believed that photography and film as I found them in the 1950s would last forever.

All of the works in this exhibition were made as photographs or films. I didn’t do this to sustain my belief, it was the way I wanted to do things, and they were easy and normal things to do. But in treating some of the works after their original production I have chosen to work digitally because it is simpler."
Morgan Fisher, October 2014

Morgan Fisher was born in 1942 in Washington, D.C. He studied art history at Harvard College and then film in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

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Maureen Paley is pleased to announce the first solo presentation by Morgan Fisher at the gallery.
His film ( ) will be projected for four days in the second of two screening weeks the gallery has organised this year. The film will be on show continually on each day of the screening during gallery opening hours from 11am – 6pm.

4 – 7 April 2013
Private view Thursday 4 April, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Morgan Fisher will be available for informal conversation Saturday 6 April, 4pm – 6pm

Morgan Fisher reflects on ( )
( ) benefits from multiple viewings. The film is unusual in that its construction makes it very difficult to remember, a fact that repeated viewings will make clear. A second viewing of the film will almost certainly accord only somewhat with the viewer’s memory of the first, and the same will be the case for the relation between the second viewing and the third.

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