Fuse Box: Sarah Sze | Denver Art Museum

Fuse Box: Sarah Sze, on view July 13, 2025, through July 2026, presents a recently acquired new media art installation by internationally recognized artist and 2003 MacArthur Fellow Sarah Sze.

In Sleepers, a six-channel video installation, moving images are projected onto over 300 hand-torn paper screens suspended from parallel lines of string. Sze’s visuals of landscapes, still-lifesm and portraits celebrate the mundane and the extraordinary, the personal and the universal, the eternal and the ephemeral, exploring our relationship with an ever-changing digital world.

Since the late 1990s, Sze has created expansive and idiosyncratic sculptures that begin with fractal-like compositions and explode into architectural space. Suffusing her dynamic constellations of everyday objects and materials with moving image projections, Sze conflates physical and digital environments to bring us closer to our current reality. To create Sleepers, the artist filmed and recorded using her iPhone and culled from various online stock footage libraries. Sleepers is Sze’s first artwork with recorded and edited sound, with everyday life serving as the primary focus of her work.

Close-up of image panels projected onto the wall — Sarah Sze, *Sleepers*, 2024. Mixed media, paper, strings, video projectors, and aluminum; Dimensions variable. Denver Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art acquisition funds and support from David Gill, Nisha and Viraj Mehta, and Takeo Obayashi, 2024.897.1-3.

Hanging image projections onto the corner of a gallery — Sarah Sze, *Sleepers*, 2024. Mixed media, paper, strings, video projectors, and aluminum; Dimensions variable. Denver Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art acquisition funds and support from David Gill, Nisha and Viraj Mehta, and Takeo Obayashi, 2024.897.1-3.

View of hanging images including two brown bears — Sarah Sze, *Sleepers*, 2024. Mixed media, paper, strings, video projectors, and aluminum; Dimensions variable. Denver Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art acquisition funds and support from David Gill, Nisha and Viraj Mehta, and Takeo Obayashi, 2024.897.1-3.

Gallery view of a large video installation — Sarah Sze, *Sleepers*, 2024. Mixed media, paper, strings, video projectors, and aluminum; Dimensions variable. Denver Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art acquisition funds and support from David Gill, Nisha and Viraj Mehta, and Takeo Obayashi, 2024.897.1-3.

Silhouette of a woman on fire — Ana Mendieta, *Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece),* 1976. Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent; Running time: 2:23 minutes. Edition of 6 with 3 APs. © 2020 The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.

The Fuse Box Series

Fuse Box is a project space dedicated to the presentation of significant new media artworks created by artists recognized for their pioneering practices in film, video, sound, animation, and computer programming, including gaming, internet art, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, machine learning, and other nascent technologies.

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