As a group, we visited the Tate modern to research and collect information on various artists for the 20 second film project. (Group members: Jane Lee, Ash Liu, Bjorn Jueman, Wai Kit Law, Kiyana Khadivfard) 13-14.10.2021
After going through the gallery, we decided to focus on Sarah Sze for our project.
Below is the text and research that I did for the group presentation that is due to happen on the 21st of October (It currently needs to be formatted for powerpoint and reviewed by Kiyana) :
We chose this artist because the way that she repurposed everyday objects to create work such as the one we saw at the Tate (‘Seamless 1999’) was inspiring and it left an impression on us largely due to how she placed the objects into a fascinating arrangement that also interacted with the architecture of the gallery itself.
A prominent example of this is how sections of her work goes through holes in the wall, as seen in this photo I took.
It was reconfigured to interact with the Tate’s walls since it was originally exhibited in America at the Carnegie exhibition in 1999.
According to the Tate website, her use of everyday objects in her work also links it to modern consumerism culture and abstract art.
To the left is the list of objects used to construct this installation.
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/materials-and-objects/sarah-sze
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/piet-mondrian-1651
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/de-stijl
Sze has stated that she was influenced by De Stiji’s work, specifically Piet Mondrian’s Composition C with Red, Yellow and Blue which is displayed in close proximity to ‘Seamless 1999’ to highlight it as a reference.
Since Sze was inspired by abstract art and the repurposing of everyday objects to create work that interacts with the archetecture of the building itself, we decided that the film would be quite abstract, focusing on the journey of a shape travelling through a space.
This shape would transform and move around in this space much like the dots in Norman McLaren’s ‘Dots’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-vsKwQ0Cg