Louise Bourgeois:
The Woven Child
Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London
09.02. - 15.05.2022
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/louise-bourgeois-woven-child
The Woven Child
Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London
09.02. - 15.05.2022
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/louise-bourgeois-woven-child
17/04/2022
written by:
Nicole Rambla Bedwell
https://nicolerambla.com
https://www.instagram.com/nicolerambla/
“These garments have a history,
they have touched my body,
and they hold memories of people and places.
They are chapters from the story of my life.”
The exhibition The Woven Child in the Hayward Gallery represents the close relationship between memories and objects. In the last twenty years of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois gathered her personal belongings and reassembled them into installations, sculptures and two-dimensional collages.
Holding the stories of the artist, each garment questions themes of home, nostalgia and identity; and remind people of their own forgotten memories. Some of the works are held by invisible threads. Floating, they look like ghosts. That is why the general feeling of the exhibition is a space full of haunted objects. They are levitating and swaying on their own because of a timid breeze of air. They appear to be alive not only because they move but also because they hold energies and secrets of both the owner and the visitors.
Placing household garments in an out-of-context space like a gallery can sometimes make objects appear as decorative, still forms. But Bourgeois’s work has been able to turn a musuem into a house of memories.
written by:
Nicole Rambla Bedwell
https://nicolerambla.com
https://www.instagram.com/nicolerambla/
“These garments have a history,
they have touched my body,
and they hold memories of people and places.
They are chapters from the story of my life.”
The exhibition The Woven Child in the Hayward Gallery represents the close relationship between memories and objects. In the last twenty years of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois gathered her personal belongings and reassembled them into installations, sculptures and two-dimensional collages.
Holding the stories of the artist, each garment questions themes of home, nostalgia and identity; and remind people of their own forgotten memories. Some of the works are held by invisible threads. Floating, they look like ghosts. That is why the general feeling of the exhibition is a space full of haunted objects. They are levitating and swaying on their own because of a timid breeze of air. They appear to be alive not only because they move but also because they hold energies and secrets of both the owner and the visitors.
Placing household garments in an out-of-context space like a gallery can sometimes make objects appear as decorative, still forms. But Bourgeois’s work has been able to turn a musuem into a house of memories.
