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Autotopography: Louise Bourgeois as Builder
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
- pp. 180-202
- 10.1353/bio.2002.0002
- Article
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What happens if the timeline implied in "bio-" in auto-biography is replaced by its spatial counterpart, "topo-"? Surely space is as influential for a person's sense of who she is as is the constantly changing series of discontinuities that constitutes a life. In this paper, an installation work by Louise Bourgeois is the interlocutor in my attempt to articulate what a spatial autobiography can be.