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Sarah Sze, Timekeeper, 2016. Multichannel color video installation, with
WORLD-CLASS ART Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International
sound, with mirrors, wood, stainless steel, archival pigment prints, projectors,
lamps, desk, stools, and stone, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim

Director’s Council, with additional funds contributed by Ann Ames and Janet
Hershaft 2017.14. © Sarah Sze. Photo: Courtesy Sarah Sze Studio

horizon line of moving images. As it travels across, above, different zones around the world are also embedded within,
and behind the works on view, visitors are absorbed into a underscoring how the ubiquitous nature of technology has
generative experience, continually re-orienting themselves reframed our understanding of time and place. Time, as
temporally and spatially. it is shown unfolding in the ensemble of works gathered
Bookending the new installation on Rotunda Level 6 are for this exhibition, is a collection of lived and remembered
two key works from the Guggenheim’s collection, both on experiences.
view for the first time in New York. The installation begins Sarah Sze: Timelapse is, as Sze puts it, “a contemplation on
with Sze’s first artwork to incorporate video, Untitled how we mark time and how time marks us.” The exhibition
(Media Lab) (1998), which captures her signature ability will be accompanied by a special, 152-page publication with
to fuse found objects and video. The exhibition continues contributions by curator Kyung An and writers Hilton Als
into Tower Level 7, culminating in the artist’s monumental and Molly Nesbit. Conceived in close collaboration with the
work Timekeeper (2016). Timekeeper is a multisensory, artist’s studio and designed by Neil Donnelly, it will include
multimedia installation that has at its center an artist’s desk installation views from the exhibition, a testament to Sze’s
filled with quotidian objects. An overflow of still and moving singular approach to materials and space.
images are projected in cascades from the desk onto the Sarah Sze: Timelapse is organized by Kyung An, Associate
surrounding walls: a bird in flight, fire burning in a trash Curator, Asian Art, and was initiated and contributed to
can, a child sleeping, a hand drawing a line, static noise by Nancy Spector, former Jennifer and David Stockman
on a screen. Digital clocks indicating the actual time from Chief Curator.

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