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Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum (Spain)
By Carlos Lujan
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Maman (1999) by Louise Bourgeois, installed behind the building, addresses the duplicitous nature of maternity; the silk of a spider is used both to construct cocoons and to bind prey. Bourgeois explores the complexity of the human mind, publicly exorcising her emotional demons and poetically re-creating childhood associations in the form of a gigantic insect. Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Bilbao, Euskadi. Spain.