Louise Bourgeois

Last weekend in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, so impressed by the work of Louise Bourgeois. Her spider 'mamam' is an homage to her mother, who worked as a restorer of tapestries. Restoring and rebuilding of woven material, just as a spider does, also becomes a symbol for endless, always repeating, renewing life in general. Louise Bourgeois' visual language expresses fear, dependancy, memory, sexuality, love and death. 

http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/index.php/louise-bourgeois/articles/louise-bourgeois.html

Her fabrics gathered in a book called 'ode a l'oubli' are so moving, personal and intimate. Louise embroidered odds and ends of material and clothing found around the artist's own household. From precious monogrammed napkins to huckaback-weave dish towels, colorful bits of silk, twill curtain liner fabric, and old nylons.
http://peterblumgallery.com/editions/louise-bourgeois/ode-l-oubli