Fiona Morrison: Once Upon a Territory

Video Art Festivals

My video art-documentary film, "Once Upon a Territory," featuring MAGAM's wonderful soundtrack, has been selected to participate in two very special festivals this November-December: The Ethnographic IntimaLente Festival in Caserta, Napoli, and The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in North Dakota, USA. Starting from January 7th, it will be exhibited at the PLAINS Museum in Fargo and screened alongside the top 8 films of the festival at the Fargo Cinema.

Once Upon a Territory film by artist Fiona Morrison

Fiona Morrison in North Dakota Human Rights Art Festival

Curriculum in english

Fiona Morrison begins to exhibit her work in the year 89 in Andorra, mostly painting. In this curriculum highlights the most important since 2003. She works in installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video art. SOLO SHOWS -THE FLIGHT, El Quadern Robat gallery, Barcelona, Spain 2020 -THE GAME, Valvi Foundation in Girona, Spain, 2019 -RAIN, “Amics del Museu d'Art de Girona”, Girona Art Museum, Spain, 2017 -TWO WALKS video art installation in the Institute of Catalan studies, La Marée, Paris, France, 2014 -TWO WALKS stills, Joan Prats-Artgrafic gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2014 -TWO WALKS 55th Venice Biennale, Arsenale Nappa 90, Venice, Italy, 2013 -THE ONE (L’U), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 -PLACES, Joan Prats-Artgrafic gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 -JOSEP UCLÈS portraits, Kiron Gallery, Paris, France 2008 -PAINTING exhibition with my father John Morrison, in Catalan Studies Institute, Paris, France, 2007 -A SPECIAL PLACE, Joan Prats Artgrafic Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2006 -Photo-portraits for Krtu, in La Pedrera, "The physics of aesthetics" nano science and art forum. Barcelona, Spain -MELANCHOLY, Joan Prats Artgrafic Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2003 -PERMEABILITY, Fine Arts Academy, Sabadell, Spain, 2003 -HOMES, Can Marc Gallery, Begur, Girona, Spain, 2003 GROUP SHOWS -Empordoneses Art Festival exhibition, Empordà Museum, Figueres, Spain, 2019- 2020- 2021- 2022- 2023 -De l’Oblit a la Revolta, Deeses Invisibles, MAC Cerdanyola Museum 2021, Tossa Museum 2022, Can Saurina Museum 2023, Espai Muxart Foundation 2023, Barcelona, Spain -TERRATS, Farinera Ecomuseum, Girona, Spain, 2022 -ESTAT SALVATGE, El Quadern Robat Gallery, Barcelona Spain, 2022 -T of Tenderness, Martí i Pol hommage, Tyssen Bornemiza Museum, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona, Spain, 2022 -LA MALETA, El Quadern Robat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2021 -Tribute to LUÍS CERNUDA, with the work LUZ Y OCASO created from his poem “Tristeza del recuerdo”, Spain and Andorra, 2020 -IN CONFINEMENT at the Gallery El Quadern Robat in Barcelona, Spain -23 SPINES, 200 artworks made during the COVID confinement, Valvi Foundation, Girona, Spain, 2020 -DISMEMBERED, collective installation against woman femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Terracotta Museum in La Bisbal, Girona, Spain, 2020 -FORESTS El Quadern Robat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2018. -Tribute to VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN, together with Jaume Plensa, Riera i Aragó, Uslé, Guinovart, Josep Uclés, among others, traveling through Germany, Andorra and Spain, 2018 -Tribute to VICENTE ALEIXANDRE, with the work VIDA out of his poem Vida, travelling around Spain, 2009 -HONDA prize exhibition of selected works, around Catalonia, Spain 2009 -Artists at the Barcelona Art Forum, Canals Gallery, Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain

Two Walks

Bodies envelop everything that is alive, serving as vessels for the soul. Sometimes, on the surface, you can witness an entire life, akin to the bark of a tree or the erosion of a landscape etched onto our skin, or a crease on a hand. Yet, one needn’t focus solely on the visible; traces of time also linger in subtle details. Perhaps what we seek is less overt and more elusive. It's wiser to pause, observe, explore, and take time so as not to let subtle signs slip away. These pivotal moments, if lingered upon, reveal themselves; yet if hurried past, they are lost forever. Like a meticulous clock, pretending to patiently observe the mechanism of time's passage, through varied prisms and landscapes. Like a poet, capturing the imagery that unfolds between the lens and my observations. We may discover parallels or divergences between two journeys that prompt debate, born from comparing two realities, visually close yet worlds apart in their context.

Jaume Galmes/ Catalan poet in Paris

IMAGINA’T! de Jaume Galmés
Impressions de figures
A Josep Uclés i Fiona Morrison
per l’exposició Figure-toi !

Entre dos crepuscles,
dues lluors,
Uclés, que dormia
a la muntanya dels somnis,
treu entre núvols el cap,
els quadres — intactes.
Darrera la cortina-
vel, quadre de si mateix,
aflueixen les formes
del pintor esdevingut pintura:
miracle, objectiu diví, Fiona.
instant
instantània
instància
ànsia
Vius o morts
els teus pintors
Fiona
s’escorren
desfilen
com grans d’arena
per la clepsidra
dels nostres dits
ràpids
fora del temps.

Escrit de Vicenç Altaió

A la Fiona,

Una de les raons de la fotografia és la de demanar-se.
Som a la terrassa de dalt de la Miró, hem d’esquivar les bastides, les proves de rajoles. Li dic a la fotògrafa que m’indiqui com vol que accentui la positura.
Em respon: “primer he de trobar-te”.
Observo que mentre amb una mà aguanta la màquina, amb l’altra sosté un metacrilat de color que deu fer, oh misteri, de captador d’altres plans. Potser portarà fins a mi el buit de la ciutat i el sabrà traslladar fins a la meva anima. Que som idéntics!
Oriento el full. No crec que enganxi amb l’ull l’escriptura i la faci llegible. No m’agradaria que desvetllés el que escric mentre ella retrata.
Ara he sentit el teu fons: la natura. Tu tries la bellesa que espiga, jo pertanyo al buit.
Amb el vent volegen els fulls, s’aixequen per les puntes contra els angles de l’arquitectura del buit I de la llum. Com si se m’escapés l’ànima, la fotografia no-sé-perqu’e sempre em porta a la mort, al testimony del pas del temps. Volejo incinerat. Si això captessis, hauries construït alguna cosa d’immemorial.
Crec, també, que seria molt important que la teva fotografía estigués a favor de les nostres dues ànimes juntes: la natura de la fotografia ordenada I la ciutat de l’escriptura desordenada, com així.
Acabaré aixecant la ploma, sense que toqui el full, a fi que la fotografia s’enlairi I no estigui contruïda damunt de res. Com el tot.
De tot cor,Vicenç Altaió

- de memòria