ARTISTS
Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze
Sleepers, 2024, Mixed media, paper, string, video projectors, and aluminum, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist and Gagosian
Sleep appears as suspended time, yet within it past and present intertwine while senses and memories move ceaselessly. Familiar scenes project onto thin paper screens stretched taut on threads suspended in midair: a loved one's sleeping face, city lights, wind-stirred leaves, rippling waves. Through dream states where time unravels, Sze evokes landscapes of our shared unconscious. Images flowing across screens collide and overlap in ways that defy waking logic, connecting fragmentarily like dream sequences. Light and shadow pass through and blend on the translucent paper, evoking moments when memory blurs or senses merge. Sarah Sze collects fleeting images and objects from daily life, transforming them into sensory video installations combining light and shadow. A 2003 MacArthur Fellow, she has expanded her practice to include painting and drawing, exploring the invisible yet present.
