The MCA has invited Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Sze to create a site-specific work as part of its ongoing Projects Series. This will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

Sze’s small- and large-scale installations consist of meticulously arranged found objects, such as electrical appliances, pushpins, colored wire, candy, aspirin, plants, and lights. These intricate constructions often suggest a miniature world of urban sprawl in which each element is dependent on another. For past projects, Sze has placed objects on floors, balconies, ceilings, under staircases, behind lit exit signs, and has broken through walls to expose and utilize electrical systems.

“The dynamic installations of Sarah Sze are visual pleasures that stimulate our senses as well as our imaginations,” said MCA Associate Curator Staci Boris. “Sze’s structures are composed of everyday items yet provoke disorientation and discovery. Intricately balanced and inventively conceived, they create a realm that is both familiar and fantastic, ordered and chaotic.”

Sze was given a one-person exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in spring 1998 and has been included in numerous international group exhibitions.

A 40-page publication with essays by MCA curators Staci Boris and Francesco Bonami including color images of Sze’s MCA installation is available at culturecounter.

This exhibition was organized by MCA Associate Curator Staci Boris.