Join artist Sarah Sze as she talks about some of her newly-created works on view on the top level of the rotunda.

Transcript
Sarah Sze: In the Rotunda pool, there’s a pendulum that leads you—literally, a lure to lead you to the next stage, all the way up to the top ring. There’s a tightrope across to a bay directly across from the point where the pendulum comes up, and then it comes down into another bay. And in that bay, there’s a tub of water where the pendulum is actually—it’s just this tiny little tip that’s just very gently drawing, like a ripple, a line of ripples through the top of this pool. And you remember being downstairs, and the same gesture is sort of just tickling the surface of water. So there’s these kind of linkings, you know, in a book or a narrative, where a character changes or they develop and you remember how they were introduced to you. That is something that you can do in space and time.

So, the river of images starts outside, and then it really cascades or it merges with every other piece. So when you get up there, on the top ring, it’s naturally lit. And you have this river of images tracing the walls. And it actually becomes like a Venn diagram mixing itself, merging with whatever’s happening in each bay. So an image will be a bird going all the way around, but as it enters a bay, it’ll merge with that painting. And it goes to the next bay and it’ll be fractured by that sculpture. And enters the next bay, and the videos will bleed into each other and go out of focus and then come back into focus.

So each bay is like a kind of small world within which you’re actually experiencing sculpture, painting, video in different ways. They’re all merging. And that intersection is actually quite live, right?

So I’m creating these different ways to sort of walk through and experience the architecture. So to think about, like you’re in a moment in time, you’re intersecting with this experience. So this idea that it’s, again, fragile. It’s in flux. The experience has a kind of in-the-moment performative quality to it when you see it.

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