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Are_we_sure ago

As explained by Tracy Twyman, the work is related to Aleister Crowley

This work has nothing to do with Aleister Crowley or the Exorcist. That's your interpretation.

The artist has been quite clear about her inspiration. It was Jean-Martin Charcot, a 19th neurologist who studied hysteria and influenced Freud.

And here's the image that inspired her. It's is from 1824 and depicts, Opisthotonus , a painful spasming of the muscles that victims of tetanus and hysterics get https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdWVo4fWAAEMM_4.jpgJPG Charcot the neurologist who Bourgeois has cited has her inspiration (and who was a teacher of Freud) talked about the arc de cercle that hysterical patients and epileptics sometimes suffered. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krzysztof_Owczarek/publication/221926258/figure/fig6/AS:305190860279813@1449774579686/Fig-6-The-circular-arc-arc-de-cercle-Paul-Richer-Etudes-cliniques-sur.pngPNG

You can claim her "Cells" are jails, but how does that explain all the Cells that have nobody in them, tortured or otherwise? How does this simplistic interpretation account for this?

It's about a collection of objects. Museum goers could not walk among the objects but had to consider them all together. In that way, it's less like sculpture and more like a theater set. They are world's you peer into.
https://i0.wp.com/www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/art-passage-dangereux-bilbao-bourgeouis-exhibition.jpg?w=870

http://images.artnet.com/images_us/magazine/features/lowery/lowery6-15-10-6.jpg

https://tapesandteapot.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/cell.jpg?w=640

http://blog.artintern.net/data/pic/600_800/64321338831396.jpg

http://www.domusweb.it/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2015/02/25/louise_bourgeois_the_cells/rmedium/domus-07-bourgeois-cells.jpg

Commoner ago

How do you explain the little boy?

angelafogo ago

The little boy with an erection.

Commoner ago

I don't think he can explain that one.

angelafogo ago

Maybe some Freud related bs that justifies that every son wants to screw his dad. We are talking about Freud here. He received childhood abused patients and stated "These are fantasies. My patients are lying" And lets not forget about his grandson. All jew elite pedophile. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/how-clement-freud-invited-kate-and-gerry-mccann-for-lunch-after/

its all part of the same plan.