24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Spider sculptor Louise Bourgeois' inner world revealed in Hong Kong exhibition
Louise Bourgeois is having a moment in Asia thanks to a major touring museum exhibition named after one of her embroideries: 'I Have Been to Hell and Back. And Let Me Tell You, It Was Wonderful'.
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The much-talked-about survey started at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in September 2024, travelled to Taipei's Fubon Art Museum, where it is now, and will move on to Seoul in autumn.
Hong Kong may not be part of the tour but it, too, has a new exhibition that sheds light on the late French artist's inner world.
Called 'Soft Landscape', the collection of 19 pieces at Hauser & Wirth's gallery space in Central is a deep dive into how her fascination with the human body inspired her artmaking and psychoanalytic writing.
Untitled (2004), by Louise Bourgeois. Photo: Christopher Burke
Lips (verso: Sphincter) (1993), by Louise Bourgeois. Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer
Eight of the works have never been shown in Asia before, from the small sculpture Spider (2000) to the three-metre-long (10-foot) bronze Mamelles (fountain) (1991), which spews water from the nipples of its row of female breasts.
