Louise Bourgeois: Conversations with Jacqueline Caux

A new book, 'Louise Bourgeois, entretiens avec Jacqueline Caux,' published by Éditions du Seuil, compiles years of recorded conversations between the artist and writer Jacqueline Caux. The work offers an intimate, audio-based entry into Bourgeois's universe, recorded in her Brooklyn studio. The book weaves together Bourgeois's spoken reflections with biographical text by Caux and photographs of sculptures. Bourgeois discusses her artistic process as a form of weaving, her studies despite paternal opposition, her exile to New York, and key works such as 'The Blind Leading the Blind' and 'Arch of Hysteria.' The narrative explores her relationship with her father, a restorer of antique tapestries, and her mother, and references literary figures like Eugénie Grandet. Bourgeois's 'Cells' environments are described as open to light and gaze. The book concludes with reflections on the power of needles and thread, and the artist's axiom: 'It is the reverse that tells you the truth.'