On the 13th of December I went to the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Tate Modern. First thoughts, - seems very self indulgent, merely a visual representation of thought and experience without question; purely visual narrative. In viewing the works together, we are seeing the visual thought over a lifetime, the exhibition is indeed a visual map of a life. She is putting herself on show in the most blatant of manners.
I think now of modern day celebrity, or the unworthy celebrity, people attempting to get their lives into the papers, to become read about and become well known, but without any significant achievement to justify it. As a viewer, we may be interested for idle gossip purposes, but do not take it seriously. When then, when Bourgeois displays herself through the seemingly higher medium of art do we offer her respect and award greatness? Is her achievement the skill in which she displays herself? The crafting of the objects she has made?
As a viewer coming to this show, I think the real questioning lies here, why are we so eager to know about an artist, or life, with whom we have no connection to? But then that is the current culture, we desire to know about what goes on in the lives of others as we wish to be involved, we do not want to be seen to be missing out on anything.
Louise Bourgeois. A high class Heat magazine
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