Alicja Kwade Parapivot

Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade's (born 1979, Poland) work is elegant, rigorous, and highly experiential. Using a wide range of media, Kwade creates sculptures and installations that reflect on time, perception, and scientific inquiry. 

With equal parts poetry and critical acumen, she calls into question the systems designed to banish doubt from the world and make sense of an otherwise unfathomable universe. Ultimately, Kwade seeks to heighten both the mystery and the absurdity of the human condition in order to enhance our powers of self-reflection.

For The Met, Kwade has created two sculptures using steel and stone to evoke a miniature solar system, a piece of space that will settle temporarily on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. This will be Kwade's first solo exhibition at a museum in the United States.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Whether or not you go, the exhibition catalog, Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot: The Roof Garden Commission, is compact volume that chronicles the site-specific work created by Polish-born German artist Alicja Kwade for the 2019 Met Roof Garden commission.

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