Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works

Wish I could have seen this show of Louise Bourgeoise's fabric!

From Hauser & Wirth London: 'The exhibition will feature over seventy fabric drawings made between 2002 and 2008. Made from clothes and other domestic effects accrued over decades, Bourgeois’s fabric drawings are abstract yet acutely personal works, retaining allusions to the materials’ past incarnations.'

'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, 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’.

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/743/louise-bourgeois-the-fabric-works/view/