This giant spider sculpture sits in Qatar’s National Convention Centre – an unexpected home that makes it all the more striking. It stops visitors in their tracks, allowing them to encounter breathtaking art in an everyday setting.
Bourgeois captures a fragile moment, where a protective mother carries her eggs. She explores the meaning of motherhood and alludes to the strength of her own mother, whom she lost at the age of twenty-one.
Her mother repaired tapestries in her father's textile workshop, so the metaphors of spinning and weaving are striking. The sculpture draws onlookers in, connecting them to personal memories around the early stages of life.
