Louise Bourgeois - Ode a La Bievre - 2007 [7471-BK]

Ode á la Bièvre was made by Louise Bourgeois in 2002 as an embroidered book from fragments of cloth. In the book, she reminisces, through images and text, about the impact the river had on her. Her family moved next to the Bièvre in the suburbs of Paris when she was 8 years old (1919). Years later, Bourgeois was to go back to that house with her own family only to find the river to no longer exist, "only the trees that my father had planted along its edge remained as a witness." Printed book of 52 pages, bound in white Japanese linen and presented in a cardboard slipcase. Edition of 1,800 copies