Artist # 11

Annette Messager, a French installation artist born in 1943. A lot of her work incorporates photographs, prints, drawings, and other materials. One of her more famous exhibitions is the one where it was a showcase of a bunch of dead birds wearing hand knit sweaters that she had made herself. A lot of her work has to do with feminism, and through the use of satire and caricature she wants to help free women from the roles assigned to them by men. Some of her other works depict the "Voluntary Tortures" a woman goes through to be considered attractive in todays society, or like in her piece "The Approaches" she is making men objects when it is usually the other way around. A lot of her work is misinterpreted by viewers.
"Two kinds of people look at my work, and Those who find it funny, droll, and those who find it very morbid, very sad."