Annette Messager is a contemporary artist who has been exhibiting her work since the mid 70s through the present. She works with many materials including photography and fibers and "fragments images and language to explore the concept of fiction, the dialogue between individual and collective identity, and the social issues of normalcy, morality, and the role of women" (moma.org/messager) I feel that she relates to my work because of the fiction, the passion and care present in her pieces, and similiar experimentation. One of her more famous pieces features a "soft" skeleton and other "soft" organs, reminiscent of the crocheted bones in the Hollow of the Restless and the claw arms in Jump! The theme of social issues and the psychology behind them also draws connections. "In her work she forcefully illustrates the idea that all things -- a child's beloved toy, a photograph, a piece of embroidery, a word with seemingly unambiguous meaning -- can be transformed into objects of potent expression." I completely agree with Messager on this point and find it simply beautiful she thinks along those lines.
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