Annette Messager
[Artist, b. 1943, Berck-sur-Mer, France, lives in Paris.]
[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done— mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.
[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.
