The Artist Project: Sarah Sze

Artist Sarah Sze reflects on the Tomb of Perneb in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I think a lot of people panic, and it's not just the claustrophobia: it is the intensity of that experience."

Artist Sarah Sze reflects on the Tomb of Perneb in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Sarah Sze, born in 1969, is an American sculptor and installation artist.

Sarah Sze (American, born 1969)

360 (Portable Planetarium), 2010

Mixed media, wood, paper, string, jeans, rocks; 162 × 136 × 185 in. Courtesy of National Gallery of Canada, Ontario © Sarah Sze

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