Five years after her death, Louise Bourgeois unveils a new work in Moscow

Louise Bourgeois’s travelling retrospective, Structures of Existence: The Cells, comes to the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow on 17 September. (It will be on view until 7 February 2016). The new venue also includes a new project: the inaugural installation of Bourgeois’s sculpture Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, from 2007. The work, which includes a six metre-high mirror, has never before been presented in public. Another monumental sculpture, the bronze piece Maman (1999), which depicts a spider, will be installed in front of the museum. It is not the first time that Bourgeois, who died in 2010, will be exhibiting in Russia. Her previous retrospective, from 2001, opened at the Hermitage Museum and was the first such major exhibition at the museum by a living US artist. (Bourgeois was born in Paris, but spent much of her life in the US.)