Room text: Helen Pashgian (*1934, USA)

Helen Pashgian is one of the few female artists associated with the Light and Space movement. She began working with acrylic glass and synthetic resin as early as the 1960s. Over the decades, she developed elaborate techniques that allow light to have a direct effect on her sculptures.

Her hemispheres, steles, and spherical bodies seem to glow from within. Through transparency, colorfulness, and translucency, the objects elude a fixed form: depending on their location and the incidence of light, their appearance and spatial depth change. This creates quiet, almost meditative spaces and objects of perception. In these, light becomes not only visible, but almost tangible.

With this precision and concentration, Pashgian expands the possibilities of sculpture. While other representatives of Light and Space open up and dissolve space, she directs her gaze into the interior of the object—and makes light itself the substance of her art.