Sarah Sze, Victoria Miro

For a major art gallery in London to devote all its exhibition spaces to the same artist simultaneously is already a rare event. Add to this the fact that it’s her first solo show in Europe since Sarah Sze’s Venice Biennale representation of the USA in 2013, and it’s clear that this Victoria Miro exhibition will be a major highlight for the London art calendar 2015.
Who is Sarah Sze?
New York based artist Sarah Sze is an internationally successful sculptor whose work fuses the banality of everyday paraphernalia with vast questions of how humans are able to create and to remember. The renowned Sarah Sze installations tend to be large-scale, stretching across museums and filtering through ceilings and floors to completely transform the exhibition space. Using desk lamps, newspapers, discarded cushions and the occasional paperclip, Sze transforms our expectations of objects and upends their relationships to the spaces they inhabit.
Victoria Miro gallery exhibition
For this Victoria Miro London show, Sze fills the gallery’s Mayfair space with a field of small, specially commissioned sculptural works. Over at Wharf Road, Sze showcases a new reconfiguration of work she produced as Artist in Residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia from 2013-14.
If you thought that all blockbuster sculpture shows had to be bright pink Jeff Koons balloons, the work of Sarah Sze is a refreshing example of what other great artists in this field have to offer. As her international history of commissions, solo exhibitions and residencies suggests, it’s also intriguing to think that an art made up of the simple and everyday has the ability to transcend the boundaries of art institutions and whole nations.

Mayfair: 30 Jan - 14 Mar / Wharf Road: 30 Jan - 28 Mar
Victoria Miro Mayfair & Wharf Road Gallery I and II