Day and night, love and rage, calm and chaos, conscious and unconscious. Enter
a world of emotional extremes in this exhibition of the art of Louise
Bourgeois, one of the most influential artists of the past century.

Born in Paris in 1911 and living and working in New York until her death in
2010, Bourgeois is renowned for her fearless exploration of human
relationships across a relentlessly inventive seven-decade career.

_Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the
Day? _reveals the extraordinary reach and intensity of her art, from her
haunting Personage sculptures of the 1940s to her tough yet tender textile
works of the 1990s and 2000s. It also reveals, as never before, the
psychological tensions that powered her search, through a dramatic
presentation in two contrasting exhibition spaces.

Moving from the well-lit rooms of ‘Day’, on lower level 2 of the Art Gallery
of New South Wales’ North Building, to the darkened terrain of ‘Night’,
downstairs in the Tank, viewers will encounter more than 120 works, including
many never seen before in Australia, among them The Destruction of the
Father 1974 and Crouching Spider 2003.

This exhibition, one of the most extensive ever dedicated to an international
woman artist in Australia, is realised in close collaboration with The Easton
Foundation, New York.