Motion / Emotion is a collection of dark ghostly creatures, dangling limbs and lingering scenes. “Messager works across painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, and the exhibition includes pieces from her early career up to now. Messager’s works reveal a keen interest in humanity and its fragile, emotional core.” From entering her exhibition and walking through, I feel as though each piece embraced new and different emotions.
The first piece that she had on display was one that I felt I connected with in a sense that I understood its meaning in todays society, and the suffering both women and men go though to feel accepted with the their community. Les Tortures is a key work within the series, which is one that she has …show more content…
That women continue to seek out ever more extreme procedures to hold back time, suggests that little has changes since Messager’s first considerations on this theme. Gender and beauty are fertile subject matter for a younger generation of female artists, building on Messager’s work and that of her feminist peers. Acknowledging the artists use of ‘past and present’ model images with which female identity is interwoven, she concludes that resulting truth of female identity in her collection is both fragmentary and contradictory. Messager’s use of the cruciform shape in her Voluntary tortures is also significant, recalling the torments and martyrdom of the saint. This interest dates back to her childhood experience and interest in …show more content…
The circulatory system is shown in its arterial and venous forms: bright, glowing pink for the newly oxygenated blood, and dark blue for the oxygen-depleted. An intestine coiled and curved, squeezes the stuffing at each bend to suggest its peristaltic action.
This panache and clarification are not at all evident in Messager’s handiwork for Penetration. The objects are roughly stitched and dangle casually from fuzzy angora-wool threads. The effect is of a forest, a dense scrubby wood that we must struggle to get through. The initial impression I had to Penetration was playful and enticing as the elements tempted myself to touch them.
Individual lights hang within the installation and encourage our close examination of the body organs, illuminating and revealing their forms and, like doctors’ probes, delineating one from the other. Fetuses hang like pendants from their fine woolen ‘umbilical cords’. Their presence defines the female body’s capacity for reproduction; their dislocation suggests that they have been removed or lost through abortion or
The first piece that she had on display was one that I felt I connected with in a sense that I understood its meaning in todays society, and the suffering both women and men go though to feel accepted with the their community. Les Tortures is a key work within the series, which is one that she has …show more content…
That women continue to seek out ever more extreme procedures to hold back time, suggests that little has changes since Messager’s first considerations on this theme. Gender and beauty are fertile subject matter for a younger generation of female artists, building on Messager’s work and that of her feminist peers. Acknowledging the artists use of ‘past and present’ model images with which female identity is interwoven, she concludes that resulting truth of female identity in her collection is both fragmentary and contradictory. Messager’s use of the cruciform shape in her Voluntary tortures is also significant, recalling the torments and martyrdom of the saint. This interest dates back to her childhood experience and interest in …show more content…
The circulatory system is shown in its arterial and venous forms: bright, glowing pink for the newly oxygenated blood, and dark blue for the oxygen-depleted. An intestine coiled and curved, squeezes the stuffing at each bend to suggest its peristaltic action.
This panache and clarification are not at all evident in Messager’s handiwork for Penetration. The objects are roughly stitched and dangle casually from fuzzy angora-wool threads. The effect is of a forest, a dense scrubby wood that we must struggle to get through. The initial impression I had to Penetration was playful and enticing as the elements tempted myself to touch them.
Individual lights hang within the installation and encourage our close examination of the body organs, illuminating and revealing their forms and, like doctors’ probes, delineating one from the other. Fetuses hang like pendants from their fine woolen ‘umbilical cords’. Their presence defines the female body’s capacity for reproduction; their dislocation suggests that they have been removed or lost through abortion or