Louise Bourgeois x Günther Förg “To Unravel A Torment”

Burning in Water

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Burning in Water present Louise Bourgeois x Günther Förg: To Unravel A Torment. The exhibition includes Louise Bourgeois’ What Is The Shape of This Problem? portfolio, composed of nine diptychs, installed in accordance with the artist’s original instructions.

Additional works by Louise Bourgeois include a unique self-portrait of the artist on vintage linen, while the rear gallery is devoted to Günther Förg’s WWM suite of large-scale prints.

During her final decade, the chronic insomnia that had afflicted Bourgeois for decades worsened, and she increasingly spent her sleepless hours drawing elaborate, repetitive designs that she would then incorporate into her prints. Acutely reflective of the artist’s own emotional state and constantly shifting psychological terrain, such abstractions were paired with corresponding text fragments to create the nine diptychs in What Is The Shape Of This Problem?.

As with the included Bourgeois works, Förg’s WWM works seem to offer the viewer selective, furtive glimpses into a deeply enshrouded, ultimately ineffable, psychological milieu.