Ocula

New York’s Armory Show: Artwork Highlights
By Sam Gaskin
March 2, 2020

Members of Ocula Magazine's editorial team, Stephanie Bailey and Tessa Moldan, along with Ocula Art Advisory director Rory Mitchell, share their selection of stand-out works to view at the storied New York art fair, which returns to the banks of the Hudson River from 5–8 March.

Moment (Rue du Pont-aux-Choux) at Peter Blum Gallery

Luxembourgian artist Su-Mei Tse creates lyrical visual fields, often incorporating sonic elements in her videos, sculptures, and installations to explore the intangible realms of memory, time, music, and language. Trained as a classical cellist, Tse's works create psychological 'nests' for fleeting moments, as seen in her touring exhibition Nested, which travelled to Mudan Luxembourg, the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai between 2017 and 2019. Moment (Rue du Pont-aux-Choux) (2019) is exemplary of the subtlety of Tse's work, the inkjet print beautifully framing sparse autumn leaves and branches that reach out from the fog and brush against a pane of glass, a rustle almost audible.

— Tessa Moldan, Associate Editor