Gagosian will open Sarah Sze: Feel Free in Beverly Hills on January 29, 2026, marking the artist’s first gallery exhibition in Los Angeles. The presentation brings together two immersive video installations and a new body of large-format paintings, offering a focused view of Sze’s current practice.
The exhibition occupies three interconnected galleries that operate as distinct systems. Each room establishes its own relationship to light, material, and time, allowing images to shift through multiple states. Sze treats collage as a spatial and temporal method, using fragmentation and reconstruction to test how images form, dissolve, and reappear. The works address perception as a material condition shaped by constant exposure to media.
Two sculptural video installations anchor the exhibition. Sleepers (2024) unfolds through a constellation of suspended surfaces arranged in sequential chapters. Projected light travels from plane to plane, appearing and dissolving to create a rhythmic exchange of image and sound. Once in a Lifetime (2026) introduces projections that fracture through shadow and reflection as they encounter sculptural elements that organize and interrupt the light field. Together, the installations present images as unstable spatial events shaped by surface, structure, and changing light conditions.
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The third gallery presents Sze’s newest paintings. These works combine oil and acrylic paint with photographic fragments, digital imagery, collage, and objects. Layered surfaces explore representation, form, and dimension through shifts in scale and tempo, bringing observed and remembered images into the same pictorial space.
Many images begin as interior impressions held in memory and gain clarity only upon reappearance. By linking what appears in the gallery with what viewers carry in the mind’s eye, Sze treats perception itself as a working material. The exhibition forms a continuous field in which installations and paintings operate together, fostering an intimate encounter between artist, artwork, and viewer.
Following the Beverly Hills presentation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present Sarah Sze: Forever is Composed of Nows, opening November 21, 2026. The project will activate the museum’s Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium with a site-specific, multisensory commission focused on light, sound, and movement.
Exhibition Details
Sarah Sze
Feel Free
Opening reception: Thursday, January 29, 6–8 pm
January 29–February 28, 2026
456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills
