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Sarah Sze - Metronome
About the exhibition
Metronome is a mesmerising, site-specific installation. The work by the acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze offers an extraordinary model of our fragile, digitalised world.
The mesmerising installation resembles an intricately illuminated globe or planetarium and is comprised of a dense matrix of thin stainless-steel tubing on which numerous hand-torn paper screens are positioned. The structure creates a framework for a dynamic display of ever-changing video images projected both onto the screens and throughout the vast gallery space, echoing the speed and transience characteristic of the age of the smartphone.
About the exhibition
Born in Boston, Sze earned a BA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1997.
She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013 with an exhibition titled Triple Point. In 2017, Sze participated in the inaugural ARoS Triennial titled The Garden with a site-specific commission Hammock (For Rauschenberg). Her works have been exhibited at and are held in the collections of prominent institutions worldwide, in addition to a number of permanent public works across the US.
Metronome is co-commissioned and produced by ARoS in collaboration with the Artangel, London and OGR, Turin and with support of Victoria Miro.
I’ve always been interested in certain times throughout history where our relationship to the way we experience time and space in the world speeds up radically. The invention of the aero plane, the invention of the train, you see really interesting work coming out of that time, in film, visual arts and writing. We are in the middle of an extreme hurricane where we are learning to speak through images at an exponential pace.
Sarah Sze
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Thanks to
New Carlsberg Foundation
The Beckett Foundation
Consul Georg Jorck and Wife Emma Jorck's Foundation
Cover image creditline:
Sarah Sze, Metronome, 2023 Installation. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum 2024 © Sarah Sze. Photography by Andrea Rosetti.