Words of wisdom from the inimitable Louise Bourgeois, whose text-based work is currently the focus of a show at the Kunstmuseum Basel, curated by fellow word enthusiast (and longtime friend of the French-American artist), Jenny Holzer. In a new feature for Elephant, writer Chloë Ashby examines the power of words within art at large—as harnessed by Bourgeois, Holzer and many more—considering the ways in which, for conceptual artists, language “became a tool for disrupting the notion that an artwork should be a physical object”. Click here to read on.
