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Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943 in Berck, France) is a French visual artist. In 2005 she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. She currently lives and works in Malakoff, France.

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Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it. . . . I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

Artist, Believe, Indicated, Reformulate, Sometimes, Sort

I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.

Arms, Face, Faces, Identifies, Photograph, Somebody

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it. ' Then I realized that was stupid

Stupid, Men, Looks, Man, Work

Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.

Real, Body, Repetition, Precisely, Transgression, Pornography

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

Always Believe, Believed, Desire, Desires, Reveal, See

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Photography, Real, Writing, Spaces, Tenderness

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Artist, Forever, Healing, Mean, Same, Wounds

I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight. . . In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.

Photography, Lying, Issues, See, Preserving, Halts

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.

Loss, Animal, Love Is, Time, Passed

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