http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/messager.html
In her installations, Messager makes use of photography (her's and others'), drawing, knitting, embroidery, sewing and objects she has collected. Her work often involves fragments, such as My Vows, which includes an large number of small close-up pictures of parts of the body. This tendency to fragment and catalog is everywhere in her work. She catalogues ink blots, pictures of children with their eyes scratched out and her own children's drawings. She embroiders mysoginist French proverbs and does drawings based on popular media depictions of happiness. These are sometimes included in albums or encased in glass and framed.
The individual elements of these catalogs are like small snapshots of the themes Messager deals with- issues of sexual and physical abuse, fragmentation of the body, sin, obsession with appearances, fairy tales, children, symbols, effigies, disguise, distortion, repetition. These all connect to issues surrounding women. The work is often executed using "women's" materials and techniques.
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