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Louise Bourgeois x FWM
She Lost It (silk scarf)
She Lost It (silk scarf)
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This wearable edition scarf by Louise Bourgeois follows an epic gallery and performance gesture, driven by a curious poem.
In 1991, FWM invited the artist to participate in an exhibition of artist-designed scarves. Inspired by the vastness of the 75-foot long print tables in the FWM studio, Bourgeois decided to make a “scarf” of enormous proportion that would eventually wrap the walls of a spiral exhibition space in much the same way a scarf wraps around a neck. Bourgeois selected a story that she had written in 1947 to print in red pigment on white cotton voile:
A man and a woman lived together. On one evening he did not come back from work. And she waited. She kept on waiting and she grew littler and littler. Later, a neighbor stopped by out of friendship and there he found her, in the armchair, the size of a pea.
In 1992, the artist held a one-time performance in which a figure enshrouded in the gauze “scarf” was slowly unwrapped so that the poem could be read by the audience before being rewound around an embracing couple. At the performance’s end, the couple stood wrapped in the narrative, and the original figure was revealed as a man holding a pea in his hand.
Louise Bourgeois, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
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