14th March, 6pm (UK)

Online via Zoom

£20, booking is essential

This lecture investigates Eva Hesse’s use of latex and the ephemeral. Unpacking the implications of sculptures that are so mutable, the lecture will question how an audience can engage with works that are difficult, if not impossible, to solidly define. Overall, the lecture explores how Hesse uses a material as complex as liquid latex to capture something of the equally complex body, subjectivity, and memory.

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For our next lecture, we will be exploring Louise Bourgeois. The talk begins by tracking Bourgeois’ artistic development, exploring her paintings, prints and sculptures. The themes of femininity and domesticity will be central. Then, we will investigate Bourgeois’ use of textiles. Closely analysing these later works, this talk will unpack how a shift in material not only introduces ideas of rendering and repairing but refreshes and complicates her engagement with the themes of trauma, memory and feminism.

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This lecture explores Bucher’s Kleines Glasportal, from her 1998 Bellevue Kreuzlingen series. Klienes Glasportal uses gauze and liquid latex to cast sections of the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Consulting psychoanalysis, this lecture poses the question: what does it mean to create an architectural skin? Also studying the performative process of making and flaying this latex skin, this talk investigates how Bucher facilitates a phenomenological network of encounters between artwork, audience and architecture.