Untitled 1996

Louise Bourgeois made this sculpture, this mobile of dresses, with metal and fabric, and who knows what else! Just imagine her, building this structure, balancing all these garments. Each dress like a memory, hanging in the air. It’s like a family tree, but with clothes instead of people. A beautiful black dress hangs in the center, maybe the artist's favourite. And those hangers, like funny, abstract heads, peering out. Louise Bourgeois loved to explore personal themes in her work, and in this sculpture, it feels like she’s inviting us into her world. Bourgeois’s work reminds me of Eva Hesse's sculptures, and her interest in the body. All of us artists are in dialogue, you know, trading secrets. It’s a lovely, ongoing conversation through art. These works resist a single, fixed idea and invite all sorts of feelings and ideas into play!