1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,360 [Sarah Sze: How We See the World] 2 00:00:08,370 --> 00:00:11,390 I'm really interested in this, kind of, pendulum swing. 3 00:00:13,460 --> 00:00:15,980 This kind of desire to be able to feel and touch 4 00:00:15,980 --> 00:00:17,860 and smell materials. 5 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:20,740 And then the other end of the pendulum being 6 00:00:21,340 --> 00:00:24,000 the reality that we have a distance from materials 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,220 because we have so much time with images. 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,320 That time with images, I think, 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,570 is very different than any other time with images 10 00:00:36,570 --> 00:00:38,120 that I've known in my lifetime. 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,800 And I think it's changing radically with each generation. 12 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,400 You know, you don't know the authorship of an image when it gets to you. 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:47,580 You can manipulate it 14 00:00:47,589 --> 00:00:48,509 and you can send it. 15 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:51,480 It's a kind of images-as-debris. 16 00:00:52,660 --> 00:00:55,340 We've learned to read images very quickly. 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,329 So all of the images that are in the gallery show 18 00:01:03,329 --> 00:01:06,790 have to do with images that make you feel 19 00:01:06,790 --> 00:01:09,290 as if they could be anywhere at any time. 20 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,120 Images of landscape 21 00:01:15,710 --> 00:01:18,970 shoot you into, kind of, a vast time and space. 22 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:21,520 It changes your sense of time-- 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:22,960 in the seeing. 24 00:01:25,980 --> 00:01:28,320 This room, to me, is really about the intersection 25 00:01:28,330 --> 00:01:30,210 of painting and sculpture. 26 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:34,560 I wanted to, sort of, pull out everything that was 27 00:01:34,570 --> 00:01:37,270 nameable in my work 28 00:01:37,270 --> 00:01:40,100 and have people look at fragments 29 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,610 of both paint and images coming together-- 30 00:01:43,610 --> 00:01:44,870 filtering together-- 31 00:01:45,570 --> 00:01:47,390 and then falling apart. 32 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,320 When you come in, 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,000 you start to see things as holes. 34 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,640 All of the edges of the work sort of 35 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,780 line up in very different angles. 36 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,700 You actually see the room sort of 37 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:04,520 almost come together 38 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,520 in terms of these kind of floating frames. 39 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:12,540 So you have this experience in time and space 40 00:02:12,550 --> 00:02:15,470 of not knowing when a work begins-- 41 00:02:15,470 --> 00:02:16,870 when a work ends. 42 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,480 This is how we see the world. 43 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,220 We don't see things in white boxes. 44 00:02:30,310 --> 00:02:33,430 How do we just talk about the luxuriousness of the material-- 45 00:02:33,430 --> 00:02:35,650 not material representing something else. 46 00:02:37,489 --> 00:02:39,790 How does paint behave in space? 47 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:41,489 How does it feel? How does it dry? 48 00:02:41,489 --> 00:02:42,589 How does it adhere? 49 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,280 When you see paper as a pile, 50 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,020 you sort of question what's happened to an image. 51 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,139 That's a place where the materiality in the sculpture 52 00:02:54,139 --> 00:02:56,799 and the image, I think, actually, 53 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:58,360 they meet. 54 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,260 That kind of behavior-- 55 00:03:03,260 --> 00:03:05,209 that kind of tactility-- 56 00:03:05,209 --> 00:03:07,540 the volume on its value, I think, 57 00:03:07,540 --> 00:03:08,720 is turned up. 58 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:12,040 Because we have so much illusion, 59 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,129 but we don't have touch 60 00:03:14,129 --> 00:03:15,650 and we don't have taste, and we don't have smell. 61 00:03:15,650 --> 00:03:18,189 We don't have that intimacy with images.