New York-based artist Sarah Sze creates site-specific installations from colorful domestic materials such as clothespins, plastic flowers, packing crates, aluminum stepladders, gum, and breakfast cereal. While artist-in-residence at the Walker in May 2002, she created an installation set beneath the floor in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s Cowles Conservatory. Three viewing windows offer a glimpse of a vast and magical subterranean landscape populated by fake plants, found objects, and laboratory beakers spiraling downward. Animated by artificial lighting and fans, the underground tableaux allow viewers, in Sze’s words, to “discover a site similar to the way an archaeologist uncovers layers of objects, monuments, and foundations.”
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- Title
- Grow or Die
- Artist
- Sarah Sze
- Date
- 2002
- Dimensions
- each of three 24 × 24 × 24 inches
- Materials
- mixed media
- Location
- On view at the Walker Art Center
Object Details
- Type
- Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2002.7.1-.3
- Physical Description
- commission for the Cowles conservatory
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds donated by Department 56, Inc., in honor of its founder, Edward R. Bazinet and the Frederick R. Weisman Collection of Art, 2002
- Object Copyright
- Copyright retained by the artist