Louise Bourgeois: A Life Sculpted by Memory and Trauma Louise Bourgeois, a name synonymous with unsettling beauty and profound emotional depth, was an artist whose entire life seemed to bleed into her work. Born in Paris on December 25th, 1911, into a family deeply entrenched in the world of textiles – her parents ran a tapestry restoration workshop – Bourgeois’s early years were marked by both privilege and profound loss. Her father, a struggling artist himself, abandoned the family when she was just two years old, an event that cast a long shadow over her psyche and would become a recurrin…