"I'm always interested in talking with architecture and planning out how you can have an experience that unravels over time, Sze told me via video interview. Long known as a masterful practitioner of collage, Sze here draws on landscapes as a general means of organizing the space on her canvas, but then radically alters them to offer experiences that at once feel both subtly familiar and utterly fresh."
"I feel like we've become so preoccupied with images outside of our eyes. How do we place ourselves in a world that constantly feels like it's shifting all the time, when it's not very obvious if information is even true or not? Sze pondered. With these images I want you to be actively trying to orient yourself within them, to actively be in that state of trying to find an orientation."
Sarah Sze's exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills comprises 13 works—11 objects and two video installations—arranged to produce an impactful, holistic experience. Six large paintings, some up to 8 by 16 feet, display intricate, collage-like surfaces that invite prolonged viewing. Landscapes serve as organizing frameworks that are radically altered to feel simultaneously familiar and fresh. Compositional restraint encourages viewers to assemble imagery actively, creating a sense of the work talking back. The installations respond to contemporary image proliferation—smartphone videos, AI deepfakes, misinformation—by staging constantly shifting, reorienting environments. A dusk-and-dawn palette of ultramarines and lavenders unifies the works.
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