Janus Fleuri

Louise Bourgeois

1968/92

Bronze and gold patina

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

For over seventy years, Louise Bourgeois (Born 1911 in Paris; died 2010 in New York) created poignant, cathartic work that explores sexuality, the human form, and traumatic events from her childhood. She is well known for her powerful sculptural work in a variety of media, including marble, bronze, plaster, and fabric. Janus Fleuri is an evocatively corporeal object made of sleekly polished bronze. Following a period in the late 1950s when Bourgeois withdrew from the art world, she began experimenting with organic and biomorphic forms. She made six versions of Janus in 1968—five in bronze and one in porcelain (which the ICA/Boston a