Sarah Sze
THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview one of the most renowned artists working today, SARAH SZE!\n\nWorking across sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation \u2013 and the culmination of them \u2013 Sze\u2019s creations often take the form of a planetarium, a colosseum, a work-in-progress laboratory. Often held up by precarious stick-like structures and formed around everyday objects (and, more recently, moving images), her works behave \u2013 for me \u2013 as the greatest visual microcosm for the information and images inundating today\u2019s fast moving, internet-filled world. \n\nIn dialogue with art historical predecessors who worked with the readymade at the start of the 20th century \u2013 as well as challenging traditions in genres, such as the still life \u2013 Sze borrows from everyday materials. These include wire, congealed paint, tape measures, scissors, newspapers \u2013 as well as images and films taken on her iPhone as if to give prominence to mundane, mass-produced objects. \n\nBorn in Boston, Sze earned a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Already when she was just in graduate school, an exhibition at MoMA PS1 saw her transform both the museum and sculpture itself. This quickly progressed to Sze working with projections and objects \u2013 from plastic water bottles to razor blades, q-tips and ladders \u2013 and work on an immersive scale that activated the viewer to be part of the time-based work, as well as challenging the notions that everything in her artworks is actually what is used to require to make the piece itself. \n\nIn 2003, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship; in 2012 she took over New York\u2019s High Line; in 2013 she represented the US at the Venice Biennale; in 2017, her permanent mural \u201cBlueprint for a Landscape\u201d opened at the 96th Street station of the Second Avenue subway in Manhattan. Last month she opened a monumental exhibition titled \u201cTimelapse\u201d at the Guggenheim, and next month will transform a disused Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye station in London into an installation commissioned by Artangel. \n\nFURTHER LINKS!\n\nhttps://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/sarah-sze-timelapse\nhttps://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/33-sarah-sze/\nhttps://gagosian.com/artists/sarah-sze/\nhttps://www.artangel.org.uk/project/sarah-sze/\nhttps://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_sze_how_we_experience_time_and_memory_through_art#t-542032\n\nFollow us:\nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nResearch assistant: Viva Ruggi\nSound editing by Mikaela Carmichael\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/\n\nTHIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY OCULA: https://ocula.com/