Tracing Fallen Sky, created specifically for Sarah Sze’s exhibition at Fondation Cartier in 2020, is one of the latest works from Sze’s Timekeeper series, begun in 2015. In this series, Sze investigates the image and the increasing overlaps in our experience of the virtual and material worlds. The pendulum, an age-old scientific tool designed to trace the earth’s rotation, inspired the structure of this sculpture. Sze has long been interested in scientific models as tools to measure time and space and to explain the natural world. Offering not only a visual but also a phenomenological experience, Tracing Fallen Sky explores our relationship with the impenetrable concepts of time, space and memory and symbolizes the ongoing quest to find meaning among the objects and images of our time. Sze’s immersive works challenge the static nature of art. Widely recognized for expanding the boundaries between media and fields, her work ranges from intimate paintings that collapse time and space to expansive installations that create complex constellations of materials, and public works that scale walls and colonize architecture.