Annette Messager

In 2005, she represented France at the Venice Biennale, where she won the Golden Lion for her Pinocchio-inspired installation that transformed the French pavilion into a casino.

It is made up of a crimson silk cloth that reveals glimpses of items that seem remnants of a shipwreck, along with semblances of body parts.

[10] ‘The red fabric is blood and the Mediterranean is full of corpses,’[10]One of her most famous pieces is her exhibition The Messengers, which showcases an installation of rooms that include a series of photographs and toy-like, hand knit animals in costumes.

[11] In 2014, she created an installation titled Les Interdictions: a combination of the puppet motif and a pattern of sixty eight prohibitory signs from around the world.

[12] In 2023, one of her works, Mes voeux (avec nos cheveux), was used as the promotional artwork for the Peter Gabriel song "Playing For Time".

[5] She has used many different, marginalised techniques such as knitting, taxidermy, photography, labels, and toys, and has created soft sculptures and installations.

Detail of Mes Petites Effigies (1989–1990) at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC
Exhibition view of Annette Messager's installation Faire Parade at Zachęta Gallery , Warsaw 2010
Annette Messager's Faire Parade exhibition at Zachęta Gallery , 2010
Annette Messager in 2018, during the presentation of her exhibition in the IVAM .