Black continents

Xavier Barral Editions www.exb.fr October 2012 Annette Messager Black Continents ISBN : 9782365110112The Black Continents exhibition will be presented at the Musée des Fine Arts of Strasbourg, from October 2012 to January 2013Major figure of the contemporary art scene, Annette Messager will present in the fall of 2012, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Strasbourg, his latest works in a collection entitled Black Continents. If his work has always mixed the playful with the disturbing, his new pieces evoke the tensions of today's world, a world whose time escapes us. Fragile hair moving at the whim of wind tunnels, abandoned shoes and small everyday objects covered of a dark sheet of crumpled aluminum foil, scattered on the ground under a tarpaulin, suspended and mobile elements unfolding like a black and threatening mass, both aerial and terribly heavy, these installations and works oscillate between the monumental and the miniature. They arouse the feeling of the unstable and the fugitive, and echo the tensions of today's world. Threats ecological and modern-day troubles are reflected in his installations that have become so many dark continents. Traces or vestiges of a world rather disturbing imagination, the latest creations of Annette Messager delve into the mystery of their origins. On the occasion of this work, Annette Messenger asked the American writer Norman Springer to write a text discussing his recent work. A science fiction author, Springer portrays in his novels and short stories from fantastic universes on the verge of drifting.