Sarah Sze
PROJECT
Consisting of a 14-minute cycle of videos projected onto hundreds of pieces of torn paper, Slow dance immerses audiences in a dynamic, shifting field of images. Featuring ambient footage of animals, nature, instruments and vehicles, the installation calls to mind the fragmented, often elusive quality of our memories, dreams and interior lives. The paper ‘screens’ are tethered to the ground by everyday objects collected from the artist’s studio and surrounds, anchoring the floating imagery in the material world. Breaking with established conventions of both video and sculpture, Slow dance offers a poignant and meditative reflection on the complex relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects in today’s image-saturated world.
ABOUT
Sarah Sze creates a singular visual language that moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, drawing, installation and video. Working across physical and digital materials, she composes immersive environments of images and objects that reflect the speed and density of contemporary life, slowing perception to reveal how meaning forms, fractures and reassembles.
Born in Boston, Sze received a BA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1997. She represented the United States at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and has participated in major international exhibitions including the Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Carnegie International (1999), the Whitney Biennial (2000) and the Bienal de São Paulo (2002). She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.
Sze’s work has been the subject of recent exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Storm King Art Center, New York; and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Her work has also been presented at Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art and is held in major museum collections worldwide.