Robert Irwin will create a huge new work for the galleries of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, next spring. The octogenarian artist will produce the site-specific immersive installation using his signature materials—scrim and natural light.

Responding to the Hirshhorn’s unconventional architecture—it is a cylindrical building—Irwin will stretch more than 100ft of scrim from floor to ceiling in a gallery space that measures around 4,000 sq ft.