Join artist Sarah Sze as she talks about the artwork projected on the museum’s facade and street level.

Transcript
Sarah Sze: This kind of river of images that goes through the piece—it really starts on the outside of the building.

So, at the ground level, they’re all sort of this idea of found images that you could find anytime you go online. So there’s this like real diversity of images in terms of high and low, in terms of subject matter. So you have like my hand drawing a line across the museum. You have a cheetah running. You have a peregrine falcon. I have things that are references to the beginning of the merging of film to photography—the Muybridge horse running, you know. I have the Edgerton milk drop—this test that he did. Now you can do it on your phone, but, you know, the human eye had never seen these things before.

I mean I, like to call it a “river of images” because when you’re on a river, it’s a force. You’re part of it and you have to sort of succumb to it. And it eddies. It slows. It hits waterfalls. So you’re on this kind of journey and this flow.

It was really important to me to make the building in some ways into an artwork, and you think about this incredible architecture in a new way. When cars go by there, they actually create this floating image—the images of light across it. And so those mix with the actual piece itself, and the sound of the environment actually mixes with the piece itself. So it picks up and collects the actual, real world.

On the bottom level, you have this kind of, the mundanity of every day, street level. And then at the top, you have this kind of connection where you jump from the building to the sky itself. And I had done this experiment where I’d projected a whole bunch of images on a building, and one of them was a moon. And it happened to be a full moon, and this incredible thing where there was a kind of confusion about what was happening digitally and what was actually real, in real time. So you’ll see this kind of mirroring of the moon itself on the top of the building at night.

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