Annette Messager

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Histoires des Oreillers, an In Focus Presentation of selected works of Annette Messager, highlighting historical and iconic works some of which have rarely been shown.

Annette Messager's work is known for a heterogeneity of form and subject matter, ranging from the personal to the fictional, the social to the universal. Through an embrace of everyday materials and principles of assemblage, collection, and theatrical display, her diverse media has included construction, documents, language, objects, taxidermy, drawings, photographs, fabric, embroidery, image collections, albums, sculpture, and installation. Messager explores fairy tales, mythology, and doppelgangers throughout her oeuvre. Often using reminiscence and memory as a vehicle for inspiration, Messager's wide range of hybrid forms has an affinity with traditions as varied as the romantic, the grotesque, the absurd, and the phantasmagoric.