Louise Bourgeois: A Life Sculpted by Memory and Trauma Louise Bourgeois, a name synonymous with visceral emotion and unsettling beauty, was an artist whose entire life seemed to inform her profoundly evocative work. Born in Paris on December 25th, 1911, into a family deeply entrenched in the world of fine art – her parents ran a tapestry restoration workshop – Bourgeois’s early experiences shaped not only her artistic inclinations but also the very fabric of her being. Her childhood was marked by profound loss and instability; abandoned by her father shortly after birth, she spent much of he…