Venice Biennale Artist Sarah Sze’s Career Highlights (PHOTOS)
Artist Sarah Sze debuts an ambitious installation at the Venice Biennale this week. See her career highlights.
Suki Dhanda
The 55th Venice Biennale, which kicks off this week and is open to the public from June 1 to November 24, brings together artistic talent from around the world. Representing the United States this year is the 44-year-old dynamo Sarah Sze, who debuts Triple Point, a site-specific installation that brings the neo-Palladian Delano & Aldrich building to life. Inside the building’s rotunda, she has created several labyrinthine structures—including makeshift models and mobiles—which transform the space into her own, strange laboratory. Triple Point refers to the law of thermodynamics in which all three phases of a substance—gas, liquid, and solid—can exist in perfect equilibrium, and she illustrates the idea using everything from large rocks to quotidian items such as water bottles and lamps. To that effect, Sze’s work is a commentary on equilibrium and the inherently fragile nature of it. From her Biennale work to Corner Plot (2006), in which she re-created an apartment in 785 Fifth Avenue visible through a tiny window in an outdoor sculpture, see highlights of Sze's career.
Suki Dhanda
Triple Point (Pendulum) (2013)
Tom Powel
Triple Point (Gleaner) (2013)
Tom Powel
Triple Point (Eclipse) (2013)
Tom Powel
Triple Point (Scale) (2013)
Tom Powel
Triple Point (Observatory) (2013)
Tom Powel
Triple Point (Planetarium) (2013)
Tom Powel
Sarah Sze
Mike Barnett
Still Life With Landscape (Model for a Habitat) (2011)
Sarah Sze
The Untouchables (Encyclopedia) (2010)
Tom Powel
Just Now Dangled Still (2008)
Adatabase
Untitled (Tokyo) (2008)
Keizo Kioku
Tilting Planet (2006)
Helene Toresdotter
Corner Plot (2006)
Tom Powel
See more of our coverage in your search results.
Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.
Register below to read this article for free or subscribe
to unlock unlimited access to The Daily Beast.
Monthly
$1
First month then $5.99/month
Annual
$35
First year then $59.99/year
Premium
$79
First year then $119.99/year
*Substack access provided by the next business day, using your subscription email. Choosing the Premium plan constitutes your permission to share your subscription email with Substack and your agreement to Substack’s Privacy Policy.
Already have an account? Sign In
Looks like you already have a subscription!
You're all set!
Thanks for subscribing.