Annette Messager (Visual Studies)

 This is another installation artist that was introduced to use in our visual studies session, as usual I’m putting her work in because it interests me, and in the case I feel it has some relevance to me work and ideas I have about how to best display it.

I’ve put up several examples of her work, but I’ll just talk about a couple of them, I particularly picked some of these because of how she’s hung them from the sealing, it’s something that I like and that interests me as a way of exhibiting, one of the works which is what looks like stuffed toy type things is to do with mad cow disease, so I imagine the ones that are suspended are to represent the cows that were kills the either lifted or scooped up to be dumped and burned in pits, and then the ones on the floor are the dead ones. Then as well as that there all contorted and burned so you can still make out parts which look like there from a cow but you not really sure. It’s an interesting work, and I like how you would be able to move though the space and move around the objects, meaning you can get closer to them making slightly more personal.

Like I said it’s this idea of suspending something that has grabbed my attention combined with being able to move through it, and these are the things I’m considering for my personal work at the moment for when it comes to thinking of displaying it, hanging them in the middle of a room, there’s going to seven of them so I’m thinking hang them to create a circle that you walk into, and have the audio I’m planning on using in the back ground, so that you’re in the middle of the work and surrounded by it.

(image and information source)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/05/annette-messager-hayward-retrospective#/?picture=344185267&index=9