The majority of her work has focused on large - scale installations and sculptures: geometric and cage - like constructions made from steel,
fibreglass mesh, Plexiglas and chain, that hang from the ceiling or stand upright on the ground in a cluster, and are often cast in light.
Steel,
fibreglass mesh, chain, light, 50 x 39 x 14 in (127 x 99 x 36 cm).
Not exact matches
These torn edges reveal a honeycomb
mesh inside the
fibreglass; this too represents a kind of perfection, in contrast to which the painted surfaces seem weathered and dirty.
Hesse, possessed of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber,
fibreglass and wire
mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure form, as the Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract shapes.