Зе, Сара
サラ・セー
Second Means of Egress

source: bronxmuseumorg

SARAH SZE

Since the late 1990s, the artist Sarah Sze has composed ephemeral installations that penetrate walls, hang from ceilings, and burrow into the ground. Whether installed in a gallery, a domestic interior, or on a street corner, Sze’s immense yet intricate site-specific works both respond to and transform their surroundings.

Born in Boston in 1969, Sze has been the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2003, a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 1999. Most recently, the Asia Society in New York presented a solo show of her work, “Sarah Sze: Infinite Line” (December 2011-March 2012). Her installation for the High Line in Manhattan, Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat), is an elaborate “metropolis” of perspectival architectural models bisected by the High Line’s path itself. The piece won a 2012 International Association of Art Critics award for “Best Project in a Public Space.”

Sze’s practice exists at the intersection of sculpture, painting, and architecture. It demonstrates the artist’s formal interest in light, air, and movement, as well as an intuitive understanding of color and texture. Sze utilizes a myriad of everyday objects in her installations, ranging from cotton buds and tea bags to water bottles and ladders, light bulbs and electric fans. Presented as leftovers or traces of human behavior, these items, when released from their commonplace duty, possess a vitality and ambition within the work. Sze’s careful consideration of every shift in scale between the humble and the monumental, the throwaway and the precious, the incidental and the essential, solicits a new experience of space, disorienting and reorienting the viewer at every turn.
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source: amuneal

Amuneal worked with the artist Sarah Sze to build a series of multi-story art installations incorporating small-scale fire escapes, stairs, and ladders. Amuneal engineered the components as laser cut sections that were welded together to create each unique assembly. These pieces were then joined into clusters under the direction of the artist before being powder coated and installed to their final locations.