Click here for an overview of the day. LB: Today Sarah and I finished setting up the dark space. Click here for a video of the finished space. We're both planning to use it for various explorations with light and projection. LB: Looking back to look forward: Red is the colour...., 2019, hanging vertically as a walkthrough installation. Hanging these knitted sculptures emphasises their ‘fragility and vulnerability’ (Larratt-Smith 2011). Louise Bourgeois suggests that the hanging thing ‘…is very helpless’ (in Nixon 2005:170) and ‘hanging and floating are states of ambivalence and doubt’ (in Larratt- Smith 2011). Hanging work, as a device, suggests 'a kind of displacement’ (Barlow 1996: 9) and adds a sense of abjection. It's a very powerful effect. This is the first time I've installed all the long sections of Red is the colour of... in one space, and I'm delighted with the impact they make. I'm now imagining a much larger, immersive, walk-through labyrinth of red knitted forms, of course, but it has been very useful research to be able to set it up using the grid. It was also much easier than attaching each piece to a ceiling! I think that the constructed space - the 2 walls and the grid - frame the installation in an interesting way, and would potentially enable a viewer to walk through the sculptures. It also adds contrasts of plane, surface and form. Would a caged walk way bring further contrast? Barlow, P., ‘The Sneeze of Louise’ in Cole, Ian, (ed.), (1996), Museum of Modern Art Papers, Volume 1 Louise Bourgeois, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art pp4-11
Larratt-Smith, P., (2011), Louise Bourgeois, the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, Available from: http://arttattler.com/archivebourgeois.html (Accessed 6 November 2013) Nixon, M., (2005), Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a story of Modern Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press
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