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| Annette Messager, at the Palais de la découverte |
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April 25th - June 1st.
For L.F.D.A. 02.Invited to create a work in the context of a Paris monument or site, Annette Messager has chosen the Palais de la découverte, the home of Paris’s central science museum and planetarium. Investing the monumental entrance of this magical venue – a gateway to the infinite space opened to us by the world of science – Messager sets the planets spinning in her turn. War of the Worlds is composed of two transparent spheres on whose surfaces are painted the continents of the Earth. The worlds fly, spin and touch gently or collide depending on the movement of the air. Fans on the floor stimulate the sudden flux in air circulation, which is amplified by the plastic bags glued directly on to each globe. Worlds become rubbish bins? Enemy worlds, ecological wars, socio-political? But also an aerial ballet of heavenly bodies. Annette MessagerSince 1971, Annette Messager has created a body of art rich with innuendo, the rather serious themes of which are advanced under a cover of naïveté and playfulness. Scattered with references to socially and artistically devalued areas such as folklore, "women's work" such as embroidery or knitting, or the world of childhood (stuffed animals, marionettes), her fanciful installations, pile-ups of signs and symbols, deal with the equality of the sexes, death, eroticism and cruelty. A universal metaphor for human beings, her work, outside numerous personal exhibitions taking place throughout the world (MOMA, the Pompidou Centre, etc.) has been rewarded with her obtaining the first-prize Golden Lion award at the Biennale of Venice in 2005. [M. A.] Annette Message was born in 1943 in Berck-sur-Mer. |
