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Sarah Sze's Art: Disorientation and Orientation
3 Feb
Summary
- Artist Sarah Sze's exhibition features 13 artworks, including large paintings and video installations.
- Sze draws inspiration from contemporary society's overabundance of images and misinformation.
- The artwork aims to make viewers actively orient themselves within shifting visual landscapes.
Artist Sarah Sze's latest exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills offers a focused collection of 13 pieces, including substantial paintings and video installations. Sze masterfully arranges the space to create a holistic experience that unfolds over time, drawing inspiration from contemporary society's overwhelming influx of images and misinformation.
The six large paintings, up to 8x16 ft, are characterized by their chromatic cohesion, featuring colors of dusk and dawn. These works incorporate subtle imagery and jagged lines, creating a sense of constant movement within a contained whole. Sze aims for a perfect tension, where viewers feel perpetually disoriented and then re-oriented.
Sze's video installation, 'Sleepers,' is deeply personal, inspired by a near-drowning experience and the quiet intimacy of watching her daughters sleep. The piece incorporates recordings of her own breath and visuals of her sleeping children, exploring themes of vulnerability and the passage of time.
Drawing parallels to 19th-century pioneers like Muybridge and Marey, Sze uses art as a tool to sharpen perception. She views her work as a means for audiences to explore their own minds and memories, encouraging an active process of seeing and constructing images in our image-saturated world.
