- MoMA, by way of Feb. 7, 2026
MoMA is internet hosting Ruth Asawa’s first main museum survey to succeed in New York following its debut at SFMOMA. Spanning six many years, the exhibition gives a complete view of Asawa’s sustained exploration of the formal and emotional resonances between pure and human-made constructions throughout media together with wire sculptures, bronze casts, paper folds, work and works on paper. “Life attracts,” she wrote, framing artmaking as a mode of full presence, and continuity and repetition form this apply as she returns repeatedly to the identical flowers and vegetation, echoing common pure constructions whereas treating repetition as a meditative seek for order inside entropy. An natural logic underpins Asawa’s strategy to each sculpture and drawing as sculpture, pushed by an effort to seize the life inside objects whereas revealing the underlying concord that connects all issues. Her signature “steady type inside a type” evolves right here by way of doubled and interlocking interiors, break up and woven wire strands and layered constructions activated by unfavourable house, opening networks of connection moderately than enclosure. On the identical time, these repeated gestures of weaving and mending carry a quiet ritual and non secular cost, suggesting care, restore and therapeutic within the context of diasporic trauma, and collectively the works type a partial stock of the sculptural vocabulary Asawa developed over time, utilizing industrial wire to reimagine natural type and situate her apply inside an ongoing dialogue with nature, ritual and the historical past of sculpture.
