Annette Messager

Annette Messager is a French artist who specializes in installations that incorporates photographs, prints, and drawings. She is also known for using children's toys, household objects and netting. Her works are based on a sense of identity, collective and individual. She uses fractions of photographs and prints to make up a whole; using netting, cropping, and placement of the pieces to have a "half hidden, half revealed" sense to the piece. Some of her pieces also explore the home as a "microcosm, a world in reduction." That idea is what her art seems to stem from; a world in reduction. Through this reduction and then magnification of details is what makes her works so compelling.