Text by Marion Ackermann and Florence Thurmes

Annette Messager’s installations create a visually stunning space for contemplation about the reconstitution of gender in contemporary society. Throughout a forty-year career, Messager has engaged with a variety of media: In the 1970s, she worked mainly in collaged and knitted works, with stuffed birds as a recurring motif. Later, she broadened to media such as drawings, photographs, and installations with a strong focus on clothes and plush figures. A complex, pictorial language connects the French conceptual artist’s work, as well as an overriding interest in how delicate components can be fragmented and recombined to form something new.  

Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2015
Hardcover, 88 pages with illustrations throughout
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.05 x 25.4 cm)
English and German text