'hours of the day' by louise bourgeois

new york’s carolina nitsch gallery will be inaugurating their new ‘project room’ in chelsea,
with an installation by artist louise bourgeois. entitled ‘hours of the day’, the 2006 project
is composed of 25 printed natural cotton cloth diptychs and a fabric book. each panel represents
a different hour of the day, as the name suggests, while the book contains texts to accompany
each hour. the 96-year old artist has been a longtime sufferer of insomnia and articulates
her awareness of time passing through these works. the show will travel to a number of galleries
after closing on february 2nd.

bourgeois was born in paris on december 25, 1911. she took advanced math at the sorbonne
and later studied art at the école du louvre. she moved to new york in 1938, after marrying
the american art historian, robert goldwater.