Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion

At the Guggenheim in New York, “Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion” returns to a pivotal 1969 work in latex, fiberglass, and fabric, presented at architectural scale. The exhibition places the piece in the late-1960s New York art scene, when Process art and Postminimalism shifted attention from polished finish to repetition, weight, and time. Hesse’s materials age in plain view, making fragility part of the form rather than a defect. The show reads as a quiet argument that instability can be a structure.