This imagery was inspired by the Swiss mountains where Bourgeois skied in her youth, but the undulating forms also suggest a mutability between natural and bodily forms—a feature often found in her work. These sheets comprise but a sample of the twenty-seven studies, states, and variants through which this composition evolved.
Gallery label from Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, Sept. 24, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018.