Duvet in a leading role...
1:29 p.m.
13/08/19 - French artist Annette Messanger (1943) turns bags and duvet jackets into wall sculptures. The versatility of those materials allows her to modify their shapes to have them gain completely different meanings. With their folds, creases and waves they become other objects, such as crosses or hearts, even though we sense the absence of bodies. However, a series of hands emerge from the hundreds holes created by the artist. These hands sometimes touch each other lightly, but they are also apart and separated.
Sleeping Deep Red, by Annette Messager (2017-2018)
Materials: Duvet, mixed technique, black acrylic paint, string / Measures: 170 x 153 x 20 cm
Sleeping Deep Bat, by Annette Messager (2018)
Materials: Duvet, mixed technique, black acrylic paint, string / Measures: 110 x 160 x 40 cm
The hands express the language of our body, and even if there isn’t full human body shapes in Message’s sculptures, they seem to be able to say it all. Childish hands, lonely hands, loving hands.
Sleeping Land, de Annette Messager (2019)
Materials: Duvet jackets, mixed technique, black acrylic paint, string / Measures: 217 x 123 x 30 cm
Sleeping Pacific, by Annette Message (2017)
Materials: Duvet, mixed technique, black acrylic paint, string / Measures: 280 x 156 x 42 cm
Daring in her choice of material, the artist (who also happens to be Christian Boltanski’s wife) reminds us, with these artworks, of those unarticulated puppets when no one is using them. A certain emptiness invades the gallery and it offers us the chance to pay tribute to those whose life is no more than a sleeping bag.
These artworks were displayed at the Galerie Marian Goodmanin Paris.
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