"In the last four years of her life, Louise Bourgeois made a series of gouaches featuring a distinctly personal iconography of the couple referencing conception, pregnancy, birth, breast-feeding, the family, and flowers.
Curated by the renowned writer and curator Philip Larratt-Smith and organised in collaboration with The Easton Foundation, this exhibition will present a representative survey of this singular body of work, complemented by sculptures from throughout Bourgeois’ career which address the same formal and thematic concerns."
Louise Bourgeois, Petite Maman, 2008. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
"'Every day,' Louise Bourgeois said, “you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.” For her, making art entails trying to translate experience into form—an operation that she compares with exorcism. In Bourgeois’s works on view in these galleries, organic formations fuse with the inorganic materiality of the media in which they are rendered, be it marble, wood, or bronze…"
Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider, 2003. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York