Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Hardcover | 24 x 1.5 x 31 cm | 144 pp

Asia Society Museum | 2011 | 9780878481132

Sarah Sze (b. 1969), initially trained in architecture, erects vertiginous sculptural universes from common consumer products such as aspirin, foam, ladders, plastic spoons, notepads, trash baskets, thimbles and wrapped sweets. Always responsive to surrounding space, Sze’s rhizomatic works are sometimes described as installation rather than sculpture, but an equally close or closer relationship occurs with drawing.

Infinite Line is the first publication to address the relationship of Sze’s sculpture to drawing, and to explore the influence of East Asian artistic traditions on her sensibility. “How do you make a sculpture that acts like a drawing?” Sze asks with these works. “How do you make a drawing that acts like a sculpture?”