"Recounting a painfully humiliating incident from her adolescence, Bourgeois indicates how making pain physical can be a way of controlling it:

"My father cut the shape of a girl out of a tangerine peel, and then he held it up and said: 'Look everybody, this is Louise. She has nothing! All she's got between her legs is a couple of white threads!' Everybody laughed at me."

Her riposte: "Once when we were sitting together at the dining table, I took white bread, mixed it with spit and molded a figure of my father. When the figure was done, I started cutting off the limbs with a knife. I see this as my first sculptural solution."

> Louise Bourgeois in de serie 'Antipodes' in de White Cube (Londen) van 4 februari tot 1 maart.