Despite their divergence, the images are linked by a horizon bisecting them, dividing each photograph in two: the bottom part features the concrete, familiar landscape, providing a foothold for identifying the photographed image; it dissolves into the top part of the photograph, which captures that which lies beyond the horizon, namely-beyond the place which surrenders to observation and knowledge.
Running at the same height in all the photographs hung side by side, the horizon generates the illusion that all the images unite to form a coherent, all-embracing sequence. Like Chinese scrolls, however, the modular sequence of photographs is constructed via temporal and spatial leaps merging on the same visual plane along which the viewer is invited to walk. Unlike ordinary 360-degree panoramas, centered on a single spot which represents the viewer at its heart, Sze Tsung Leong’s photographs expand the gaze beyond the boundaries of human vision, a-priori relinquishing the illusion of the all-seeing gaze which places the viewer at the center of the universe.

Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico, 1970. Lives and works in New York.

Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

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