Little big things
Jerry Saltz | Vulture | 3rd April 2023
Sze is renowned for her intricate assemblages – mundane objects assembled to create a “total choreography”. Not everyone is a fan, some seeing her work as “obsessive-compulsive magpie art”. A new installation in a New York museum is a classic – ladders, hardware store odds and ends, art materials, video images – that present as “cities … whole solar systems”. At least for this writer, the show is a success, because it gives the building “something like a consciousness”.