Sarah Sze

Sarah is an installation artist, working mostly with site specific work using everyday objects. She received her BA at Yale University and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She has been in the art world since 1991 and has received numerous awards and currently lives in New York city.

Sze's work consist of large scale installations that have an architectural, fragmented quality made of every day objects. Most of her work is site specific, working on and in buildings, parks, and various other areas. I really like her work because of it's quality of impossibility. Most of her work to me looks as though it shouldn't be able to stand on it's own. It is asymmetrical and very fragile looking. She used everyday objects like kitchen and office supplies, and the way in which she puts them together just seems as though they could fall apart at any second.

The piece to me seems like a fragmentation of the world. It's a spherical shape, like the earth, and it's just made up of the things that we use. There are lights illuminating specific areas of the piece. I can't really tell what those areas are specifically, but its looks like a more solid back piece that shines a reflection on the rest of the objects.





This is one of her site specific pieces that she has built on and around the US Pavilion. I appreciate how she worked around the building and really used the architecture to create her own architecture-like structure. I don't, however like the circular space on the ground. I feel like there is almost a disconnect between the two pieces. I don't feel like they are connecting and working well together.
Triple Point, 2013, U.S Pavilion in Venice








Source:
 http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sarah-sze
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