Sarah Sze Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21st Street. New York, NY 10011 September 10th-October 17th, 2015 Sarah Sze Sarah Sze has a solo show on display at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery located at 521 West 21st Street, New York, NY. The show started September 10th and will continue until October 17th. The gallery consists of two floors. Each floor has two rooms. Upon first entering Sarah Sze’s exhibit on the first floor of the Tanya Bonakdra Gallery, I was not entirely sure what I was entering an art exhibit. A variety of found objects were scattered within the space. The scene was aesthetically similar to that of a snapshot of workmen doing handiwork in the building. Very much a captured moment, while entering the room, one felt as though they may be intruding an environment exclusively for a worker. The deceptive nature of these objects does not end just there, but also in the fact that these found objects have not been randomly placed. Each element, when examined further, indicate that their placement was done with great consideration, purpose, and precision. Many elements in the space have been balanced in a fixed point of a potentially devastating situation. Some examples include falling, breaking or cracking. However, they never reaching this tipping point, such as the objects which hang precariously by delicate or thin wire, or material, they remain fixed as you move around them. These pieces have also been placed in space which we as the audience seem to be ‘invading,’ thus increasing the tension in the room. The exhibition continued onto two back rooms, both shrouded in darkness. The rooms contained desks centered, and in demand of attention. Similar to the workmen’s ‘captured moment,’ these rooms elicit feelings of intrusion. The space evokes imagery of a studious, isolated individual at work. These rooms also employ the theme of anticipation of disaster, but also completion, through the display of various items, and elements such as current time, place, date and other numerical countdowns (count-ups). Both rooms contain a rock split in half. One half sits on the desk while the other is suspended in the air right above. The anticipation for the ‘other shoe to drop’ or in this case, the ‘other rock to drop,’ makes the viewer aware that, although the place we are in now is somewhat stable and balanced, our individual worlds are easily shattered; potential can easily be turned into kinetic. Some elements on these desks are already shattered even. The countdown displays are projected onto fragmented pieces and foundations of boxes stand on top of one another in spite of the fact that they are without sides, functionally entropy. Through the use of her work and the entire gallery space, Sze's exhibit creates an interactive, aesthetic experience.
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Mecca Alim
10/19/2015 06:10:55 pm
I certainly agree with you concerning the "intrusive" aspects of the gallery, almost as though the artist is trying to duplicate the complexity of the creative mind, as if the viewers become part of the exhibition.
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Megan Pasko
10/20/2015 09:48:33 am
I agree with you and Mecca about the intrusive state of the gallery. It was a chaotic display of objects that may or may not be found in a gallery meticulosity placed which made the viewer feel very reserved
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SteviAnn Matijevic
10/20/2015 04:06:47 pm
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