“The work, the video, the sculptures—all the work—is about being captured in a continuous state of transition.”
—Sarah Sze

This exhibition, the artist’s sixth with Victoria Miro, marks a return to Venice for Sze, who featured within the 1999 and 2015 Biennales and represented america together with her exhibition “Triple Level” within the 2013 Biennale.

Two immersive environments discover how pictures are constructed and recollections are fashioned. Sze will take over the gallery with a brand new moving-image set up and current a set of latest work in environment that deliver the mise-en-scène of Sze’s New York studio to a close-by Venetian house, uncannily evoking a way that the artist has simply stepped away from her workplace.

Sze’s newest video work transforms the gallery with an array of ever-changing projections suspended all through the area. Fastidiously composed, the projections invite the viewer to visually navigate the work, forming a private narrative by journeying from one picture to the subsequent. Interested by shattering the singularity of a picture, and in dismantling any hierarchy of visible materials, Sze’s set up questions the character of wanting and underscores how pictures are elementary to reminiscence.

On view within the salon rooms of an house reverse the gallery, Sze creates a complete surroundings with a sequence of work offered inside a simulation of the area during which they have been made. Once more contemplating the notion of pictures, Sze’s enquiry is one among orientation: how does one find oneself in a portray, and the way can a portray’s impact be one among disorientation? Compositionally advanced, the works incorporate each artwork historic methods and digital methods. These are work that reward the act of wanting: the attention is all the time engaged in a strategy of placing the work collectively and taking them aside.

A way of discovery and indulging the pleasure of being misplaced fairly than arriving at a vacation spot has knowledgeable all of Sze’s oeuvre, and the expertise of Venice as a spot, its distinctive invitation to wander, is echoed throughout the exhibition. All the works on view incorporate imagery—even when layered and hidden—that Sze has captured or created within the metropolis.

at Victoria Miro, Venice
till June 16, 2024