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Sarah Schwartz

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Sarah Schwartz

(Born 1953, works in Chicago)

Reflexion, 1989

Inscription in granite stone

77 x 137 cm

Sarah Schwartz carved the word “Reflexion” in the stone lying in the middle of the path when she visited Wanås in 1989. It is a subtle work that is ambiguous in the double meaning of the word: circumspection and mirroring. She also created the work Mother, which is placed near the eastern gate to the park. Schwartz’ artworks at Wanås bear witness to the cautious approach to the park’s environment that was typical of early exhibitions at Wanås. They are hardly visible, easy to pass by, and exist without disturbing or defying nature. Schwartz’ works are also among the first of many language-based artworks that can be found in the park today. Jenny Holzer has placed texts along the long dry-stone wall that surrounds the park, and language is also central to artworks by Marianne Lindberg De Geer, Yoko Ono, Srinivasa Prasad, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, and Robert Wilson.