Niki de Saint Phalle's Hon: An Ethics Through the Visual?

In 1966 Niki de Saint Phalle, in collaboration with Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultyedt, constructed a monumental reclining female figure, some 28 metres (92 feet) long, entitled Hon (sometimes translated as She: A Cathedral), in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Though Hon was destroyed at the end of the exhibition, the figure has retained a vital place within art history, despite the fact that all we have left is documentation: relatively few photographs, written accounts and memories. The work itself can no longer be seen (except through photographs) nor sensually explored.