Happiness is Danish sculptor Jeppe Hein’s stock-in-trade. Past work includes brightly colored benches he calls ‘social sculptures’ that invite strangers or intimates to stop and converse, walls of water that dare interaction and shiny balloons of metal that appear to float on the ceiling. A new installation at Chelsea’s 303 Gallery presents a ceiling bedecked with swathes of fabric evoking waves, home to alluringly shiny lacquered plastic fish and other animals. The text ‘expect a miracle,’ spelled out in balloon-like letters at the gallery front door is both poignant and hopeful. (On view in Chelsea through May 31st).
