A darkened gallery at the Denver Art Museum is quietly glowing. Fuse Box: Sarah Sze, now on view, presents Sleepers (2024), a recently acquired six-channel video installation by internationally celebrated artist Sarah Sze, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow known for turning everyday materials into constellations of wonder.
In Sleepers, moving images wash across more than 300 hand-torn paper screens suspended from parallel lines of string, so the pictures shimmer, fragment and reassemble as visitors move through the room. Sze’s visuals — landscapes, still lifes and portraits — celebrate the mundane and the extraordinary, the personal and the universal, the eternal and the ephemeral, and invite us to think about our relationship with an ever-changing digital world.
Since the late 1990s, Sze has built expansive sculptures that begin with fractal-like compositions and seem to explode into architectural space. Seeing her newest media work settle into the DAM’s Fuse Box gallery — the museum’s space dedicated to new media art — is a treat for Denver art lovers: intimate, hypnotic and quietly joyful, it rewards anyone who lingers a little longer in front of the light.
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