Meditations on Text and Image
5. Once, I was invited to be part of a literary reading at Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, to coincide with a new Louise Bourgeois exhibition there. Upon entry, I was immediately fascinated by the anxiety and trouble unabashedly shown in her paintings and sculptures. In one of the paintings, two red hands are scratching downward on the sides of a canvas, leaving blood-like fingernail trails from top to bottom. In the center, the artist writes, “extreme tension!!
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