Art Fair
Art Basel Parcours 2021
Sarah Sze
September 20–26, 2021, 7pm–1am daily
Rheinsprung 9, Basel
Sarah Sze’s first large-scale outdoor video work will be a key feature of this year’s Art Basel Parcours, which engages the public and fairgoers by placing site-specific sculptures, interventions, and performances in the city’s historic center.
Timepiece (2021) by night transforms the facade of a four-story building at the top of the historic Rheinsprung into a plume of images seemingly let loose from their frame. A multitude of randomly coded video sequences—a moon, a card trick, an electrical storm, and more—appears at dusk, rising, pixelating, glitching, and eventually dispersing. Like nature, they seem to have unpredictable lives of their own. Timepiece is a collection of images digitally shuffled, like a deck of cards, in real time. Both artist and viewer experience a live collision of images in an evolving composition continually made in the moment. In this mesmerizing digital process, Sze further explores her original concept of timekeeping as a key framework for knowledge, meaning, and the record of life lived. This project is supported by Gagosian.
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Sarah Sze, Turning and Turning, 2024 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Maris Hutchinson
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www.shahgargfoundation.org
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Sarah Sze, Crisscross, 2021 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Daniel Spizzirri
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www.nashersculpturecenter.org
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Sarah Sze, Times Zero, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
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