Timelapse

Timelapse is a series of site-specific installations by Sarah Sze that occupied the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from March to September 2023, weaving through multiple spaces of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic rotunda. At its core is Timekeeper, a multichannel video and mixed-media installation centered on an artist's desk overflowing with quotidian objects, from which cascades of still and moving images are projected onto surrounding walls — a bird in flight, fire in a trash can, a child sleeping, digital clocks from time zones around the world — creating an immersive meditation on how technology reshapes our experience of time.

Sze's intervention treated the Guggenheim itself as material, embedding her characteristic accumulations of everyday objects and projected imagery into the spiraling architecture so that the building became inseparable from the art. A "River of Images" flowed across artworks, walls, and gallery-goers, while projections on the museum's exterior facade extended the work into the public realm. The exhibition crystallized Sze's career-long investigation into how our digitally saturated world compresses and reconstitutes our sense of place and duration.