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Briony Fer on Eva Hesse

The Great Women Artists

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Is There a Connection Between Time and the Work of Hester?

Hester has an increasing preoccupation with time as well as space. When she starts working with materials like latex, which she immediately takes to and starts experimenting with. But the thing about lat is that it ages over time. What she finds is a material which has time built into it. With latex, the colour changes. It starts off as this very pale yellow, like surgical gloves. As i said, it's translucent. You can see through it originally. When it becomes darker and darker and opaque, obviously it hes. And there are lots of discussions about how to deal with that. Can we remake them, or to what extent can you show them when they're so fragile and

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