LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE WOVEN CHILD
*Featured photo: Installation view 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
The first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles
9 Feb – 15 May, from 10am
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre,
Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX, Regno Unito
In the last two decades of her career, Bourgeois began to incorporate clothes from all stages of her life into her art.
This developed into a varied body of work – from monumental installations, to figurative sculptures and abstract collages – incorporating textiles such as bed linen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint.
Bourgeois’s fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation that are central to her long and storied career.
‘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.’
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child sums up this wonderfully inventive and compelling final chapter in this extraordinary artist’s work.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child is generously supported by The Easton Foundation, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA) and Hauser & Wirth.
Additional support has been provided by The Woven Child Exhibition Supporters’ Group: Caroline & Eric Freymond and Ellen & Michael Ringier; Peder Lund; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and the Henry Moore Foundation.
