Louise Bourgeois – Sydney International Art Series

Experience the strange beauty and emotional power of Louise Bourgeois’s art, in the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia.

Louise Bourgeois – Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? reveals the extraordinary reach and intensity of her art, from her haunting Personage sculptures of the 1940s to her tough yet tender textile works of the 1990s and 2000s. It also reveals, as never before, the psychological tensions that powered her search, through a dramatic presentation in two contrasting exhibition spaces.

Moving from the white rooms of ‘Day’, on lower level two of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building, to the darkened terrain of ‘Night’, downstairs in the Tank, viewers will encounter more than 120 works, including many never seen before in Australia, among them The Destruction of the Father 1974 and Crouching Spider 2003.

This exhibition, one of the most extensive ever dedicated to an international woman artist in Australia, is realised in close collaboration with The Easton Foundation, New York.

Exhibition is presented as part of the The Sydney International Art Series, an initiative of the NSW Government via its tourism and major events agency Destination NSW. Every summer, it brings the world’s most outstanding art exclusively to Sydney.