WHAT
The exhibition by the celebrated late French-American artist (1911-2010) explores the dynamic relationship between landscape and the human body. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, this is her 2nd show at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, and coincides with the ongoing tour of a major survey exhibition organised by the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). The exhibition foregrounds certain formal devices, such as the hanging form, the spiral and the relief. As always in her work, there is an oscillation between abstraction and figuration.

WHY
Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, the artist was also a prolific painter and printmaker. The exhibition sets up a series of 4 interlocking dialogues that revolve around an iconography of nests, holes, cavities, mounds, breasts, spirals, snakes and water. This imagery corresponds to the themes and preoccupations explored over the artist’s career: the good mother, fecundity and growth, retreat and protection, vulnerability and dependency, and the passage of time.