if you are in London go see... Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works.
from press release:Fabric played an important role in Bourgeois’s life. She grew up surrounded by the textiles of her parents’ tapestry restoration workshop, and from the age of twelve helped the business by drawing in the sections of the missing parts that were to be repaired. A life-long hoarder of clothes and household items such as tablecloths, napkins and bed linen, from the mid-nineties Bourgeois cut up and re-stitched these, transforming her lived materials into art. Through sewing she attempted to effect psychological repair: ‘I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole’.
Find images of all the work on exhibition and details here.
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Oh Wow! I'm not familiar with that series of her work! Too bad I'm not in London...
This is amazing, these are not very poupular I would love to see it and what she said bout sewing it is something I also feel. Wonderful.
so glad you all enjoy this work as much as I do. She has always worked on and off with fiber but in more recent years began to do it more and more and her physicality was more frail and she could not work with heavier materials. For me this is some of her most beautiful work. Someday I hope the travels here...
as I have only seen the majority of her fiber work through image.
I particularly love the woven elements of this series.
Yup - been there and done that - peeps should also (if you are in London anyway) go to another textiles show at the Foundling Museum; see my blog post on recent exhibitions ive been to for more details: http://fibrestofelt.blogspot.com/2010/11/pick-of-current-london-textile.html
thanks for the tip and so jealous that you saw it, i wish, i wish it was coming to nyc.
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