Neel Mukherjee

There are artists whose works open up something inside you and nest there in a space you didn’t think existed. When I first encountered Sarah Sze’s work, I was baffled. That bafflement still continues but not a single day passes when I don’t think about her works. They are pieces of vertiginous beauty (I suspect ’beauty’ is a word she won’t like), at once immense and fragile, bearing both the exquisite, painstaking workmanship of micro-objects such as the machine of precision watches and the grand architecture of immense installations. The two apparently paradoxical elements sing in perfect contrapuntal harmony. Or so it appears to my untrained eye. But take a look; I promise you it’s like nothing you’ve seen before.