
Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria, fabric, wire, 2000. Private collection. Courtesy Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris.

Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria, fabric, wire, 2000. Private collection. Courtesy Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris.

Sophie Calle, The Chromatic Diet

“Vicky Hodgett, Susan Frazier and Robin Weltsch’s Nurturant Kitchen featured “Eggs to Breasts”, a pink kitchen with walls covered in breasts, evokes woman as a feeder in the heart of the house. Woman feeds with her kitchen, feeds children with her breasts and feeds man with her body. Culturally propagated stereotypes of womanhood are obsessively repeated in the kitchen – the colour pink and breasts.
Rather than celebrating these feminine attributes, a claustrophobic and surrealist cavern is created, reminiscent of Bourgeois’s grotesque, anthropomorphic body parts, and Yayoi Kusama’s repetitive dot works, which symbolised her decent into madness. The approximation of eggs and breasts also suggest a woman’s reproductive capabilities and thus her primary function, as well as a shortened evolutionary path – from egg (a foetus) to breast (a mother).”

jude jeffs

cy twombly
Keith Edmier at Friedrich Petzel (Contemporary Art Daily)
Louise Bourgeois, “Untitled (No. 2)” (1996). Photograph Courtesy Cheim & Read / Hauser & Wirth / The Easton Foundation / VAGA / Metropolitan Museum of Art

berlinde de bruyckere
Letsel, 2008, 2008
Wax, epoxy, metal, canvas
140 x 40 x 45 cm / 55 1/8 x 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ in
Installation view, ‘Berlinde De Bruyckere, Luca Giordano. WE ARE ALL FLESH’, Hauser & Wirth London, Old Bond Street, 2009
Photo: Mike Bruce
louise bourgeois, Nature Study, 1984-94, marble

“Untitled Pillow” by Stephen Antonakos, 1963

louise bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois
Why Have You Run So
Far Away? 1999
Pink patchwork fabric
25,4 x 33 x 25,4cm