Sarah Sze

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Description

Sze’s exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum explores the construction and measurement of space, mass, time, and volume through the use of materials. Three museum floors—the first, second, and eighth floor galleries—contain different experiments. Each one turns the viewer’s sense of scale, gravity, and information on its head. Common objects like rocks, newspapers, and furniture mutate from something known, to something foreign, fragile, newly composed, and entirely transformed.

Published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2013
11.5" x 13"
Hardcover
79 Pages

Contributors: Marion Boulton Stroud, Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Gilmore, Jeffrey Kastner
Designer: Takaaki Matsumoto
Editor: Stephanie Greene

ISBN: 978-0-9836317-1-2

More from the Artist

The image printed on the scarf, a dark midnight background showing pinpricks of starry brightness scattered across the night sky.

Artist Edition

A person with short hair, glasses, and earrings is wearing the scarf draped over their shoulders. The scarf is tied in a knot over their right shoulder and is over a mustard colored sweater. In the background, you can see a park in fall, with orange foliage and a black streetlamp.

Sarah Sze x FWM

Nightside (scarf)

An image of the print which appears on the silk scarf—a closeup of water rippling in greys and blues, with bright highlights where the light caught the water when it was photographed.

Artist Edition

A person with short hair, glasses, and earrings wears the scarf wrapped around their shoulders over a mustard sweater. In the background of the image, you can see out of focus trees with fall foliage in greens, reds, and yellows.

Sarah Sze x FWM

Waterside (scarf)

Meet the Artist

A photograph of a woman sitting cross-legged on the ground on top of a stack of newspapers. She is fixated on the papers and may be rearranging them as her hands are in motion.

Sarah Sze

Sze is known for her site-specific sculptural installations that combine mundane objects to create elaborate, architectural presentations imbuing the everyday with surprising significance. Her work incorporates her ranging interests in visual art, architecture, science, and philosophy.

Sarah Sze

About The Exhibition

An installation view of a contemporary art exhibition featuring 13 screenprinted panels leaned against a wall. Each panel features the same image of a rough texture but is printed in a different colorway, stretching from primary colors to warm and cool grays. Sculptural boulders and smaller rocks are placed along the gallery floor.

Sarah Sze at The Fabric Workshop and Museum

December 13, 2013–April 6, 2014

The culmination of her FWM residency, Sze's works across multiple galleries reflected on time, exploration of movement, and investigation of material.

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