The first major, traveling survey of work by American artist Louise Bourgeois in more than two decades, this comprehensive exhibition features over one hundred and fifty works spanning the artist’s career, including her earliest paintings; various sculptures; large-scale installation works from the 1980s and 1990s; a selection of drawings and prints; small-scale, hand-made objects; and later, fabric-based works. Best known for her biomorphic, sculptural explorations of psychoanalytic themes, Bourgeois’s impressively diverse practice examines maternity, the couple, childhood, the body, sexuality, gender, and autobiography through mystic symbols like giant spiders, totems, eggs, and eyes.
MOCA constitutes the fourth venue of the exhibition’s international tour, which also included stops at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
Louise Bourgeois is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and co-curated by Frances Morris, Marie-Laure Bernadac, and Jonas Storsve.