Until 12 March. Exhibiting the fruits of collaboration between Bourgeois & Emin, feats 16 intimate works made over the past 2 yrs, confronting themes of identity, sexuality & abandonment.

"One of them was a towering figure of 20th- and early 21st-century culture, with an unassailable place carved out in art history for her wild, unsettling and utterly individual art created over an 80-year career. The other is, depending on your perspective, either a talented if occasionally chaotic national treasure; or an outmoded, overexposed hangover from the heyday of Britart". - Charlotte Higgins - chief arts writer for the Guardian

‘Do Not Abandon Me’ originated with Bourgeois, who began the works by painting male and female torsos in profile on paper, mixing red, blue and black gouache pigments with water to create delicate and fluid silhouettes. Bourgeois then passed the images on to Emin, who later confessed: ‘I carried the images around the world with me from Australia to France, but I was too scared to touch them’. Emin overlaid Bourgeois’s forms with fantasy, drawing smaller figures that engaged with the torsos like Lilliputian lovers, enacting the body’s desires and anxieties. In one, a woman kisses an erect phallus; in another, a small fetus-like form protrudes from a swollen belly. In many, Emin’s handwriting inscribes the images with a narrative, putting into words the emotions expressed in Bourgeois’s vibrant gouaches.

This suite of prints was one of the last projects Louise Bourgeois completed before her death. They were then printed at Dye-namix studio in New York with archival dyes on cloth in an edition of 18 sets with 6 artist proofs. The exhibition travels to Hauser & Wirth from Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.