Madeleine Filloux: Sculptures by Annette Messager

These are some really intense works by a French artist named Annette Messager. I saw an exhibit of hers at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Unfortunately, these images don't quite do her work justice. She makes a lot of puppet-esque sculptures and multimedia works many of which have moving parts.

This is a sculpture that uses pencils, gloves, and parts of stuffed animals:

This is an incredible installation I saw where a huge red cloth spills from the doorway and billows up to reveal grotesque, light-up stuffed animal-type objects underneath:

Here is a link to an image of a sculpture that you can zoom in on:

My Vows, Annette Messager

Here's another image of one of her moving structures:

I think her work is very powerful and haunting. It also provides a good example of the creative use of everyday materials.