Sarah Sze – Measuring Stick: Measuring Time through Images

In Measuring Stick (2015), Sarah Sze gives moving images a sculptural form. Flickering lights and scattered elements create a structure resembling an editing desk. Recalling Charles and Ray Eames’s film Powers of Ten, she questions the tools we use to measure our surroundings: how can a body, an image or a moment be located within…

Sarah Sze — détail de l’installation Measuring Stick dans son atelier / detail of Measuring Stick in her studio.

Sarah Sze — Measuring Stick (2015). Film still / image du film : John Marton, © Art21, Inc. 2016. Source : Art21.

In Measuring Stick (2015), Sarah Sze gives moving images a sculptural form. Flickering lights and scattered elements create a structure resembling an editing desk. Recalling Charles and Ray Eames’s film Powers of Ten, she questions the tools we use to measure our surroundings: how can a body, an image or a moment be located within the vastness of the world?