Eva Hesse: WildSpace, 1957–1970 New York Performances

At MoMA, “Eva Hesse: WildSpace, 1957–1970” traces the artist’s work from the late 1950s through the decade before her death, when sculpture in New York was being remade in real time. The show follows Hesse’s turn toward latex, fiberglass, and other unstable materials, and the way she used repetition, hang, and sag to test what a form could be. Seen in an NYC museum context, the work reads as a bridge between Minimalism’s rigor and postminimalism’s bodily unease. One clear takeaway is how deliberately Hesse let impermanence become part of the meaning.