Exhibitions

Louise Bourgeois - A Woman Without Secrets

This exhibition reveals how Bourgeois, working in a variety of materials and scales, explores the mystery and beauty of human emotions. Her works explore issues around vulnerability and fear and often draw on her own life experience. Despite the deeply personal references to her own life in her work, as well as to a range of art historical movements, Bourgeois’s unique visual language ultimately reaches beyond both, raising universal questions about life and art. In particular, ideas of womanhood and its various guises including the roles of daughter, wife, mother and lover are explored through a vocabulary of recurring motifs: spiders, spirals, the ‘arch of hysteria’, double forms and entwined fabric bodies.
Part of the ARTIST ROOMS tour programme.

mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

18/07/2014 to 12/10/2014

Open Tues: 10am–4.30pm; Wed, Fri & Sat: 10am–5pm; Thurs: 10am–7pm

Centre Square
Middlesbrough
TS1 2AZ