Louise Bourgeois’ Cells are among the most innovative and challenging sculptural works in her extensive oeuvre. In her lecture, Julienne Lorz will trace the development of the Cells within Bourgeois’ oeuvre and situate them within a broader art historical context.
Louise Bourgeois’ Cells are among the most innovative and challenging sculptural works in her extensive oeuvre. Constructed during the last two decades of her life, the Cellscontain ideas about space and memory, the body and architecture, and the conscious and unconscious—themes that can be found in Bourgeois’ works even as early as the 1940s. With the Cells, Bourgeois continued to build on and expand her already fascinatingly rich and complex artistic language, giving her preoccupations a physically and conceptually impressive spatial presence and an emotional atmosphere that is truly unique.
In her lecture, Julienne Lorz will trace the development of the Cells within Bourgeois’ oeuvre and situate them within a broader art historical context.