Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works
Lauren Down | Tuesday 2 November, 2010 18:31
Untitled’ 2007 © Louise Bourgeois Trust Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Christopher Burke photo
Louis Bourgeois is known for her Freudian oeuvre, which is often accompanied by abject representations relating to women, maternal relationships and notions of femininity. This show features over 70 fabric drawings made between 2002 and 2008, as well as four large-scale sculptures. Made from clothes and other domestic effects accrued over decades, Bourgeois’s fabric drawings are abstract yet acutely personal works, retaining allusions to the materials’ past incarnations. The morphing geometries of her fabric patterns are supple and embracive: the stitches holding life’s threads together, protecting Bourgeois from her fear of abandonment. Until 18 Dec. Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, Oxford Circus, W1S 2ET www.hauserwirth.com
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