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Artist Eva LeWitt's delicate hanging sculptures made from soft and colourful materials

For her latest series 'Untitled', American artist Eva LeWitt created colourful hanging sculptures, which are currently on show at the VI, VII, Gallery in Oslo.

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Photographs by Christian Tunge. All images courtesy of VI,VII, Oslo

Photographs by Christian Tunge. All images courtesy of VI,VII, Oslo

Delicately hung against satisfyingly white-washed and marble walls, the various semi-transparent panels are made from a mixture of soft materials, including plastic, latex and polyurethane foam. There is plenty at play in her unusual artworks: some of the hanging pieces seem to overlap one another, often mixing two different colours to create a new shade or hue. There's also a focus on shapes – circles playing a dominant part at the tips of each hanging piece, but also in the structure of each panel itself.

Speaking to Artsy about her inspirations, Eva said: "My inspiration always comes from the materials themselves. I have gravitated towards soft, synthetic, colourful materials; plastic bags, sponges, yarn, tape, etc. I struggled for a time using traditional sculptural materials such as plywood, steel, fibreglass.

"But these materials hurt me—literally and figuratively. I prefer to work in complete solitude, and I physically could not manage these materials alone. I could not dominate them or manipulate them the ways I wanted to. That is why I choose soft, tactile, materials. I want to be able to control and transform the materials."

Eva LeWitt's colourful hanging sculptures made from soft materials suspended against white walls in a gallery space, featuring overlapping translucent panels in yellow, green, blue and other hues with circular shapes
Wall-mounted hanging sculpture with vertical translucent panels in yellow, green and cream, with coloured beads tracing curved lines across the surface
Hanging sculpture with red and turquoise vertical strands suspended from a wooden rod, connected by a curved line of dark and light spheres
Eva LeWitt's colourful hanging sculptures made from soft materials suspended against white walls in VI, VII Gallery, Oslo
Bright yellow hanging sculpture made of vertical translucent panels with a curved bottom edge and a line of dark spheres curving diagonally across the right side
Eva LeWitt's hanging sculpture featuring vertical translucent panels in cream, yellow, purple and green with coloured spheres arranged in curved formations beneath them
Eva LeWitt's colourful hanging sculptures made from soft materials displayed against white and marble walls in VI, VII Gallery, Oslo
Eva LeWitt's untitled hanging sculpture with vertical panels in gradient colours from turquoise through cream to yellow, connected by spheres at curved edges
Eva LeWitt's colourful hanging sculpture installation featuring translucent panels in various hues with dangling beaded details in a gallery space
Colourful hanging sculpture with vertical strips transitioning from yellow to green, blue and red, punctuated by dark blue and pale yellow spheres forming a curved pattern
Eva LeWitt's 'Untitled' installation featuring colourful hanging panels made from soft materials suspended against a white gallery wall
Hanging sculpture with vertical pleated red and cream panels decorated with yellow and pink spheres forming a curved pattern at the base
Translucent vertical strands in yellow, green, blue and grey hang from a wooden rod, with coloured spheres creating a curved wave pattern down the centre of the installation
Eva LeWitt's hanging sculpture with turquoise vertical panels and curved strings of orange and yellow spheres creating two intersecting arcs
Eva LeWitt's colourful hanging sculptures in 'Untitled' series, made from soft materials with beaded strands in yellow, blue, orange, green and black against white walls
Translucent vertical plastic strips hung from a rod, with blue spheres strung across the upper right and yellow spheres curved along the bottom edge
Hanging sculpture with translucent panels in coral, cream and yellow, threaded with blue beads creating curved lines across the installation
Colourful hanging sculptures made from vertical strips of plastic and soft materials in red, yellow, green and blue suspended from the ceiling of a gallery space, with a blue door visible on the right wall
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