"In art brut, there is no difference between writing and drawing. For me, writing becomes a drawing. A word is a drawing, and at the same time a sound, something visual, but also music. Repeated words, which become incantations, like songs. I find this litany very beautiful. When you are in front of a work, the artist also imposes something, but for me, the art is a journey."
Annette Messager's work is developed in the context of 1970s Paris, where political angles and the campaign for women's rights were predominant. The artist is marked by the Surrealism of André Breton. Her work thus falls within the so-called "individual mythologies" trend. Her artistic project focuses on two aspects: women and their relationship to society. She denounces the female condition by evoking the domestic universe in which the male gaze has confined women; needlework, private diaries, beauty magazines, make up his visual language. Annette Messager is resistant to any academicism, her work centred around human valuessuch as imagination, affects, and nostalgia. A visual artist with multiple identities, she produces works in which ambivalence, writing, and the representation of often fragmented bodies are at the heart of her creative process.