From May 18 to October 20, 2024, ARoS audiences could experience the acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze’s immersive installation Metronome (2023) on ARoS’ Level 1. Now, ARoS has acquired the artwork with generous support from the New Carlsberg Foundation. 

Metronome resembles an intricately illuminated globe or planetarium and is comprised of a dense matrix of thin stainless-steel tubing on which numerous hand-torn paper screens are positioned. The structure creates a framework for a dynamic display of ever-changing video images projected both onto the screens and throughout the vast gallery space, echoing the speed and transience characteristic of the age of the smartphone.  

This mesmerizing installation considers our current climate in which the boundaries between the physical and virtual realms are increasingly indistinct alongside the escalating fragility of our environment.   

ARoS has co-commissioned and produced Metronome in collaboration with Artangel, London and OGR, Turin and with support of Victoria Miro.  

“We are delighted that Sarah Sze’s impressive work is now part of ARoS’ collection. Sze’s work manages to combine poetry, aesthetics, and innovation, and to give visitors the opportunity to reflect on the current challenges of social media, climate crisis and our relationship with nature which we’re all facing today," says Museum Director Rebecca Matthews. 

Metronome is characteristic of Sarah Sze’s unique approach to art making. Since the late 1990s, her innovative, poetic inquisition of the possibilities of materiality has challenged the static nature of sculpture to reflect the acceleration of information and images that define contemporary experience.  

“Pivotal aims in ARoS' vision are to present our audiences to critically reflective art, international contemporary artists and diverse art forms – that's why this work is so important to ARoS. It is equally important that a leading, female contemporary artist like Sarah Sze is now represented in our collection,” says Rebecca Matthews. 

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