Repairs in the Sky, no. 3 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Louise Bourgeois
American, born France. 1911–2010
1999
A letterpress and lithograph in which Louise Bourgeois renders an act of mending as a field of tiny red knots and fragile connecting lines, aiming to make visible emotional repair and the persistence of memory.
You’re struck by a tight central cluster from which dozens of small, puckered red marks radiate outward like stitched spokes, each linked by shaky, hand‑drawn lines that look at once delicate and insistently tactile.
From her late series 'What Is the Shape of This Problem?', the print translates Bourgeois’s recurring themes of repair, trauma, and domestic labor into an intimate, drawing‑like printmaking language that expanded how prints could express bodily and psychological experience.
Medium
Letterpress and lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 12 × 17" (30.5 × 43.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
135.2000.4a
Palette
Exhibitions
