Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a French-American artist whose work transformed memory, childhood trauma, sexuality, motherhood and the body into psychologically charged sculpture and installation. Across a career spanning more than seven decades, she worked with bronze, marble, latex, fabric, drawing and found objects, creating forms that move between vulnerability and aggression, intimacy and fear.

This archive explores Bourgeois’s monumental spiders, including Maman, her enclosed Cells, early Personages and late textile works. Although frequently connected with Surrealism and feminist art, her practice resisted fixed categories, revealing how personal memory can become a shared language of desire, protection, betrayal and survival.