Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois is best known for large installations and sculptures inspired by her own memories and experiences.
She would transfer her emotions into material. A lot of anger, frustration. The materials were used as resistance. A need to express on the outside what she was feeling internally.
Early work was dealing with her father and the aggression towards her. Late work was towards her mother who was a sower and tapestry worker.
Mid 90's Spider Sculptures
Connected to her mother and her own artistic process
Idea of her mother being like a spider, a weaver, a maker and a protector. People arew scared of them there's an ambivolence between good and bad. Strong and weak, safe and dangerous.
Themes
Life, loving, living, suffering, dying. Profoundly human
Making things, unmaking them, remaking them.
Cage with red faces work
Described herself as a guerilla fighter. How much she went through.
Traumatic and vivid childhood trauma. She processed that trauma through he work and her best works came out of using those traumas.
“I transform nasty work into good work. I transform hate into love. That's what makes me tick.”