Léviathan, Ernesto Neto

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The Falling Body [Le corps] female (from Léviathan Thot) (2006) is an installation consisting of an enormous web of different-sized gauze and panty hose with Styrofoam balls inside. The stockings hanging from the ceiling take on a tubular shape due to weight and gravity, forming bulbous shapes on the end, suspended like pendulums that swing around and above our heads. This piece transforms the entire museum’s Atrium space, which is no longer a mere container, but rather an emotional space where the artistic experience becomes a multisensorial event of smell, sound, and touch.