
contact:
Freud Museum London
20 Maresfield Gardens
NW3 5SX
Lili Spain
0207 435 2002
eventsandmedia@freud.org.uk
cost: £10/£7
Date:
Thu 17th May 12 at 7:00pm (ended)
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. She has written on several key works by Louise Bourgeois including Maman, the late gouache drawings of fecund and sexual bodies, and works that deal with the trauma of ageing. Her forthcoming book, After-Affect/After-Image: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation, includes a chapter on what she terms Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Geometry of Absence’.
Ticket collection and exhibition access 6-6.45pm.
Image: Louise Bourgeois
THE DANGEROUS OBSESSION, 2003
Fabric, glass, stainless steel and wood
143.5 x 61 x 50.8 cm.
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & Read
Photo: Christopher Burke, © Louise Bourgeois Trust
neighbourhood: Finchley Road & Swiss Cottage
audience: adults
type: museums and galleries
