In Conversation: Jenny Holzer on Louise Bourgeois

Celebrating the final week of 'Louise Bourgeois. Once there was a Mother' at Hauser & Wirth’s newly dedicated Editions space, please join us for a special talk with artist Jenny Holzer and Hauser & Wirth curatorial director, Alexis Lowry, on the impact of Louise Bourgeois.

This event is free, however, reservations are required.
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About Louise Bourgeois
Born in France in 1911 and working in America from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. For over seven decades, Bourgeois’s creative process was fueled by an introspective reality, often rooted in cathartic re-visitations of early childhood trauma and frank examinations of female sexuality. Articulated by recurrent motifs (including body parts, houses and spiders), personal symbolism and psychological release, the conceptual and stylistic complexity of Bourgeois’s oeuvre—employing a variety of genres, media and materials—plays upon the powers of association, memory, fantasy and fear.

About Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual and installation artist whose work deploys text in public spaces across an array of media, including electronic signs, carved stone, paintings, billboards, and printed materials. Holzer’s oeuvre provokes public debate and illuminates social and political justice. Celebrated for her inimitable use of language and projects in the public sphere, Holzer creates a powerful tension between the realms of feeling and knowledge, with a practice that encompasses both individual and collective experiences of power and violence, vulnerability and tenderness.