DOHA.- Qatar Museums Authority will present the first solo survey exhibition in the Middle East of the work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists of the 20th century. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious will be on view at the QMA Gallery at Katara from 20 January – 1 June, 2012, and will feature approximately 30 works from all periods of the artist’s long career, including sculptures, installations, drawings and fabric works from 1947 to 2009. The exhibition will complement and contextualise the installation of Bourgeois’s monumental sculpture Maman (1999), which was unveiled last month at the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha. Bourgeois conceived Maman, a 9-metre-high bronze spider, as an ode to her mother. “Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious is part of a series of cultural initiatives organ-