Galerie Hauser & Louise Bourgeois : "La Maladie de l'Amour"

She became famous from the 1970s onwards, particularly for her monumental installation sculptures. Close to abstract expressionism, the surrealists and the feminist movements without ever having joined them, Louise Bourgeois lived through the 20th century and died in 2010 at the age of almost 100. "If you can't bring yourself to abandon the past, then you have to recreate it, and that's what I've always done," explained this strong-willed woman. Yes, Louise has brought out of her memories and childhood traumas a work of incredible dreamlike power, in which she attacks the domination of the father or pays homage to her mother with gigantic sculptures such as the spider named Maman. The home, the family, the body and the sexual organs are thus founding subjects of her work and it is here that the love relationship in the work of Louise Bourgeois is explored in particular.