Louise Bourgeois’ Dark, Brilliant Exploration of Womanhood
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Louise Bourgeois’ Dark, Brilliant Exploration of Womanhood
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This Woman’s Work
Echo of the Morning at PoMo in Trondheim brings Louise Bourgeois’ late work into sharp focus, foregrounding how her experience as a woman shaped a lifelong artistic reckoning. Drawing on deeply personal imagery and tactile materials, the exhibition explores maternity, aging, dependence, and inherited expectations placed on women. Tender and darkly witty, the works reveal Bourgeois turning inward, using art to confront vulnerability and reframe womanhood on her own terms late in life.
FAMILY STYLE
A new critical study revisits how Toni Morrison reshaped American literature by uncovering the histories left out of official narratives. Rather than soften the past, her novels confronted slavery and racism by giving a voice to those pushed into silence. Through inventive language and form, Morrison transformed absence into presence, using fiction to restore agency to Black lives too often erased from history.
THE ATLANTIC
In a candid conversation, designer Agnès b reflects on the sensibilities behind her enduring style, from handmade rings and political badges to a lifelong devotion to artists. She recalls encounters with Picasso and Basquiat, her passion for collecting art, and the everyday rituals that ground her work. Thoughtful and unsentimental, she frames fashion not as trend but as expression shaped by a deeply personal sense of taste.
HOW TO SPEND IT
Amid fashion’s headline designer reshuffles, a group of women-led independent labels is reshaping the conversation through craft and slow-making. Designers including Stephanie Suberville, Olivia Ozi-Oiza Chance, Pauline Dujancourt, Róisín Pierce, and Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen foreground heritage techniques and personal narrative. Rejecting runway spectacle, their work embraces intimacy and process, positioning fashion as a deeply tactile practice.
T MAGAZINE
Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, travels to the Met as a living testament to her artistry, captivating audiences worldwide after her death in 2023. Written in the last years of her life, the work weaves music and staging into a haunting meditation on trauma and grief. Performers who knew her personally help new casts grasp the emotional subtlety of the score, keeping her voice present even in her absence.