[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.
Annette MessagerBeing an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
Annette MessagerAt first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
Annette MessagerI have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
Annette Messager[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.
Annette Messager