Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has been creating interactive, immersive sculptural environments using translucent, stretchable fabric since the late 90s, and 'Navedenga' (1998), a piece acquired fairly recently by New York's MoMA, will be on show there from January the 20th until April the 26th.

With its taut contours, rounded appendages, and soft, pliant surface, the installation resembles both the intimate spaces of a body and a fantastical spacecraft; its title, a neologism coined by the artist, recalls the Portuguese word for ship, nave.

Intriguingly, Neto embedded aromatic cloves within the structure, and visitors will be invited inside its hollow chamber to engage their visual, tactile, and olfactory senses.

Male and female; internal and external; weight and ethereality - Navedenga encompasses a profusion of symbiotic oppositions.