Louise Bourgeois: A Life Sculpted by Memory and Trauma Louise Bourgeois, a name synonymous with raw emotion and unsettling beauty, was an artist whose life and work were inextricably linked to the echoes of her past. Born in Paris on December 25th, 1911, into a family steeped in the world of textiles – her parents ran a tapestry restoration workshop – Bourgeois’s early years were marked by profound loss and instability. The sudden death of her mother when she was just two years old, followed by a period spent in an orphanage and then with various relatives, forged within her a deep-seated se…