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Eva Hesse's Studio. Photo: Gretchen Lambert © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.
Book tickets
How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? Celebrating the launch of Body High: Death, Drugs and Eva Hesse, the author Ryann Donnelly will be in conversation with arts and culture journalist and curator Amah-Rose Abrams. They will discuss the raw materials of radical 1960s art movement where objects transformed into unsettling reflections of the body’s sensuality and decay - dripping latex, collapsed rubber tubes, and visceral forms.
Focusing on the groundbreaking work of sculptor Eva Hesse and other women artists who redefined the boundaries of bodily expression, Body High blends art criticism with raw personal memoir. Weaving Hesse’s revolutionary creations with Donnelly’s own journey, she explores her life as a musician and artist grappling with her partner’s addiction, fragility, and the complexities of love.
Focusing on the groundbreaking work of sculptor Eva Hesse and other women artists who redefined the boundaries of bodily expression, Body High blends art criticism with raw personal memoir. Weaving Hesse’s revolutionary creations with Donnelly’s own journey, she explores her life as a musician and artist grappling with her partner’s addiction, fragility, and the complexities of love.
Ryann Donnelly is an artist and academic interested in subversive representations of the body in twentieth century performance and sculptural practices. She holds a practice-based PhD from the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently teaches in the Art History department at University of Sussex. Her first book, Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video, was released by Repeater Books in 2019.
Amah-Rose Abrams is an arts and culture journalist based in London. Working in features, market and criticism she has contributed to The Art Newspaper, artnet News, Time Out, Harpers Bazaar Art, Dazed and Confused and T Magazine at the NYT.
Amah-Rose Abrams is an arts and culture journalist based in London. Working in features, market and criticism she has contributed to The Art Newspaper, artnet News, Time Out, Harpers Bazaar Art, Dazed and Confused and T Magazine at the NYT.
Book tickets
07:00 pm
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Cinema 1
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Eva Hesse, No title (Seven Poles). Photo: Philippe Migeat © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Eva Hesse: Diaries’, published in May 2016 by Hauser & Wirth.
Eva Hesse, Right After, 1969. Photo: P. Richard Eells
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Photo of Eva Hesse by Manfred Tischer, 1965.
Eva Hesse: Diaries’, published in May 2016 by Hauser & Wirth.
Eva Hesse, Oomamaboomba, 1965. Photo: Abby Robinson
Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland and © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
no. 236848.