Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child Exhibition
Installation views of Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery, 2022. © The Easton Foundation/DACS, London and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Mark Blower/© The Hayward Gallery
Louise Bourgeois had a fascinating catalogue of work over her career which lasted for decades. This new exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery is the first retrospective of her work with fabric and textiles constructed from the mid 1990s until her death in 2010.
Featuring almost 100 works Louise said ‘I have always had a fascination with the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair the damage. It’s a claim to forgiveness.’
As I haven’t yet visited the exhibition I don’t want to go into too much detail. But her installations, concepts and the culmination of a lifetime of creating art promise to be both thought provoking and dynamic.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child Exhibition is exhibiting until 15th May 2022 at The Hayward Gallery in London
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