Needle and dread: Louise Bourgeois’s disturbing textile works

Severed heads, fraying stitches and exposed bodily orifices feature in a new exhibition of the artist’s late works in fabricOn a loose sheet of paper from 1995, when she was in her 80s, Louise Bourgeois wrote: “The beautiful clothes from your youth – so what – sacrifice / them, eaten by the moths.” The statement represented a turning point in the French-American artist’s life and work. Schooled in the importance of self-presentation since childhood, Bourgeois