Art Galleries London: Sarah Sze, Victoria Miro Gallery

Victoria Miro Gallery presents two new installations by US artist and international sculptor Sarah Sze in one of the best free exhibitions London stages this summer. Celebrated for her large-scale installation projects, Sze explores the role of the individual in a world dominated by visual mass consumption. For the duration of the exhibition, the gallery space will be transformed into an immersive stage set challenging our sense of time, place and memory in the world today.

The installations showcase her creative process in a sensory explosion. Image in Debris, 2018, is the latest edition in Sze’s series of sculptures which study the image in motion. Combining photography, film and objects to analyse the boundaries between the material and the virtual, Sze explores how our relationship to physical objects, memories and time is influenced by never-ending streams of images – on our phones, laptops, televisions. Captured mostly on Sze’s iPhone the projection of slow loop imagery in Image in Debris lasts days. Her second sculpture, Afterimage, 2018, installed on the ground floor gallery, references, through multiple layers of ink, paint, paper, wood and objects, the impact of an image after seeing it.

Sarah Sze has worked with moving images since the late 1990s and these most recent projects consider the ways in which our image-saturated world affects our experience of the tangible world, whether consciously or unconsciously.