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Artist || Annette Messager (b.1943 in France)
Title || Mes Trophées. Les Mains (diptyque) (1987)
photographic prints, watercolor
Exhibitor || Centre Pompidou
Exhibition || Corps à corps
Photography is one of Annette Messager's preferred mediums. In her early career, she would take the images of others and distort them. Then, she started to use the camera herself, though not to portray, but rather to fragment and deform faces and bodies. In the 1980s, the artist started to paint and draw elements from popular, religious and erotic iconography directly on her photos. For the works in the Mes Trophées series, she drew on close-ups of hands, a leg and a thumb. The patterns fit snugly into the contours and folds of the skin, and are inspired by tattoos, palmistry books and images of devotion. The frames are slightly tilted, as a nod to the traditional hanging of 19th-century family portraits.
CPP219
I like this one, I think a lot because of the focal point. I like where the bottle is in the photo, and I like how the water's not swirling around it so much, like how it was in a different version I had. I'm a little sad that all the trouble we went through to put an actual love letter in the bottle went to waste though. It's upside down, and I should have tilted the bottle the other way to make it right-side up, but I was in a Sunday dress...