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PORTO
.- To Unravel a Torment is dedicated to the work of Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911, Manhattan, New York, 2010), spanning seven decades and featuring works by the artist made between the late 1940s and her death in 2010, at the age of 98 Visited and revisited in countless and intense exhibitions over recent decades, in different museum spaces around the world, the vast and singular oeuvre of Louise Bourgeois is intercrossed by themes that are indelibly associated with the traumatic events and experiences of her childhood. Themes such as family, sexuality, the body, death and the unconscious required intense therapy, which she consciously carried out through her art. In her sculptures, textiles, books, drawings and architectural installations, Louise Bourgeois expressed the tension between opposing forces - male / female, passive / active, architecture / body, love / hate - using formal and symbolic equivalents. Although the roots of her wo
Joint exhibitions explore sound cultures and today s telecommunication society
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TAIPEI
.-MOCA Taipei is presenting Liquid Love, an international group exhibition curated and co-organized by TheCube Project Space. This exhibition project is under the sponsorship of the 2018 Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts from the National Culture and Arts Foundation. The exhibition is open until 24 January 2021.
The Liquid Love curatorial project comprises two joint exhibitions: Sound Meridians and Liquid Love. Tackling their respective subjects, the two exhibitions reflect on our modern society and history. Presenting both archival documents and research-based artworks, Sound Meridians is curated by four curators from across Asia: Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia. Situated on the first floor, it recounts stories of modern sound cultures in the four countries and territories.