27/12/2024
Born on Christmas Day 1911 in Paris - French artist Louise Bourgeois was (1911-2010), a visionary artist who turned emotion into form and vulnerability into strength. Known for her monumental sculptures and deeply personal creations, Bourgeois explored themes of memory, family, and the human condition with unparalleled honesty. Using art as therapy, she gave form to her emotions and developed a body of themes and motifs in sculpture, drawings and editions, as well as in painting.
“Life is made of emotions. The objects I have created make them tangible” - Louise Bourgeois.
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
"I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it."
"It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture."
"What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself."
“You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away…”
- Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed/Psychoanalytic Writings
“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands…”
"Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said."
- Louise Bourgeois (Dec 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010)
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Image: Dimitris Yeros, Louise Bourgeois, 2008, Inkjet-Print on paper
