CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/5/2020

Back in Stock! 'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries' is a staff pick for Women's History Month

"Spider" (2003) is reproduced from Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries, back in stock from Hatje Cantz. Featuring textile and needlepoint works alongside archival materials and the artist's writings, it's a staff pick for Women's History Month, 2020. "The unraveling of a torment: you have to begin somewhere: the color blue, the damage is repairable," Bourgeois writes. "I cannot throw it away because I do not want to put it on the back burner. It is worth saving. I have gone through this one hundred times + any piece of tapestry is worth (not saving, cherishing) result: mountains of unusable clothes, buried under torn clothes. I can’t renounce the past. I cannot, do not want to forget. imitation + homage to the mother."