The Verifiable Image of the World? A text by Bruno Latour on Sarah Sze

In 2020, twenty years after her first solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, American artist Sarah Sze presented two installations specially created for the exhibition spaces of Jean Nouvel’s glass building: Twice Twilight and Tracing Fallen Sky (2020), now part of the Fondation Cartier Collection. On the occasion of the exhibition entitled Night into Day, the Fondation Cartier conceived a catalog in close collaboration with the artist, in which Bruno Latour wrote an essay about Twice Twilight. He saw in this work made of an assemblage of objects, lights, sounds, videos, photographs, and moving images, a poetic, complex, and resolutely original vision of the Earth, a true “enigma in shape of a globe” that questions our relationship to the world and its representation.