For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
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Sarah Sze
​© Sarah Sze, Hidden Relief, 2001, Gagosian
"Art is a timekeeper; it endows breath into materials. It is a traveling message between humans across centuries.” – Sarah Sze
images from both physical and digital realm
complex multimedia works
microscopic to macroscopic
nature of materiality
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Sarah Sze collects objects and images from the physical and digital world and assembles them into complex multimedia works that shift scale between microscopic observation and macroscopic perspective on the infinite. Her works are dynamic and span sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. In her dynamic, generative body of work she spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation while always addressing the uncertainty and temporality of nature and materiality. She creates immersive installations in which video is her central medium. In her installations she conceives the interchange of images and the exchange of information. (Gagosian)
​© Sarah Sze, centrifuge, installation, Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany, 2017
I had the pleasure to see her installation work “Centrifuge” in person in 2017 and was impressed by the materials she used ranging from mirrors, wood, salt, bamboo and stainless steel to archival pigment prints, projectors and ceramics. The multitude images was sending flickering lights trough the dark room and at that time it looked just like screens to me on wich a combined reality could be viewed. “At its centre, the various objects of the installation recall subatomic particles morphing and evolving within a quantum field, an implied kinesis which is counterbalanced by the nature of the sculpture’s overall form; an indeterminacy that in turn mimics the transmutation of cells and organisms within biological life.”(Miro 2017)
Sze states in an interview with the curator of the show, "a work should be constantly in a state of flux in terms of how it exists in space, how it exists in time; it should be unclear whether it's in a process of becoming or a process of entropy.” (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery)
​© Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky, June 26, 2021, Storm King Art Center
Sze describes the first contact of the viewer to the sculpture as a “moment of being oriented but at the same time completely disoriented” (Sze, 2021) and as a new way of seeing the sky. “All the radome pieces create the whole” (Sze, 2021) and it is almost like a puzzle. It should seem to the viewer as if the piece had suddenly appeared. It will change depending on the season and the weather, even the time of day, wich is an exciting thought to her and makes the sculpture a time keeper. It becomes a tool to measure the sky above. (Sze, 2021)
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Fallen Sky consist of a delicate and entropic 36-foot-diameter spherical cavity pressed into the earth and sheathed in mirrored stainless steel. The large scale and shimmering surface of the sculpture will allow it to be seen both up close and from far away. (Stormking, 2021)
Key Takeaways
Why is it relevant to me?
Her work is relevant to me because I can learn a lot from the way she assembles images and objects in a highly complex way. Some of her works seem to me as if they are a frozen part of a development whose outcome is unpredictable which I connect to the experience of the digital world. The way she plays with space is very fascinating. She narrates many stories at once and connects them in space.
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What are my key take aways and how will I implement it?
It very inspiring to see her connect biology and the exchange of information to her work and it gives me an idea of how to collage or connect different levels of story telling.
Especially her recent sculpture plays with the connection of time & space and earth & sky.
I had just experimented with 3d-renders playing with layering a scattered digital texture over a glitched photograph of treetops which surprisingly has a similar visual concept.
To connect these ripples to a bigger form that unifies them again is a step further from which I can learn in my composition.
References
Gagosian, Sarah Sze: About. Available at: https://gagosian.com/artists/sarah-sze/
(Accessed: 20 Jan 2022)
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Miro, V (2017) Sarah Sze: Centrifuge at Haus der Kunst, Munich. Available at: https://www.victoria-miro.com/news/707 (Accessed: 20 Jan 2022)
Storm King Art Center (2021) Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky. Available at: https://collections.stormking.org/Detail/occurrences/152 (Accessed 24 Jan 2022)
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Sze (2021) Interview: Storm King / Video by Graham Mason. Available at:
https://vimeo.com/567936911 (Accessed 24 Jan 2022)
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (2018) Sarah Sze: Centrifuge. Available at: https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/publications/168-sarah-sze-centrifuge/ (Accessed: 20 Jan 2022)
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