Flash Point (Timekeeper), 2018. Mixed media, wood, stainless steel, video projectors, acrylic, archival pigment prints, ceramic, and tape, dimensions variable. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio, © Sarah Sze, Courtesy Gagosian and the artist

Sarah Sze: Fractured Infinities

Little things mean a lot to Sarah Sze. In her kaleidoscopic installations teeming with found objects, disjunctive arrays of familiar ephemera—tied, clamped, taped, and cantilevered with deft architectural and engineering savvy—hold aloft fragile universes. Sze’s work is about the finite and the infinite, the mundane and the sublime, time and timelessness. But it is mostly about how we value things as a measure of how we value life. No one ever accused her of being a Minimalist . . .

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