Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze brings household items, industrial materials and elements of nature away from the everyday through her large-scale, sprawling installations where matchboxes, bottle-caps, and plastic pipes interact, forming surreal landscapes. In this way she explores how the quotidian object can be used as an artistic material without its residual meaning and function dominating over other elements, such as, form, line, and colour.
Sze’s attention to the placement of these pre-made items in relationship to the space they occupy and each other, and the way they have been removed from their original context, prevents the materials from operating as metaphors or symbols of their intended purpose. However, there is reference to a disposable, consumerist society, globalisation through universal items, and the everyday.
“Tilting planet” is a living organism, constantly growing across the floor, where drink bottles, thumb tacs, and pebbles become equal components of the whole. Sze removes any status or hierarchy from her materials so that each tiny piece is as necessary as the next, creating a fantasy universe free from judgment. This sense of life is also created through the use of repetition and multiples of an object, which evokes movement. It is as if the installations are chain-reactions ready to be set off, like lines of dominoes.
Through this focus on pattern, flowing lines, movement, and a rejection of symbolism, Sze transforms the quotidian object into something more than a piece of ephemera.
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Jeffrey Kastner. “ART / ARCHITECTURE; Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter Around the House” The New York Times, July 11, 1999
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E1DB1E3DF932A25754C0A96F958260
National Gallery of Victoria
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/worldrush/sze.html
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