Annette Messager&;s installations create a visually stunning space for contemplation about the reconstitution of gender in contemporary society. Throughout a forty-year career, Messager has engaged with a variety of media: In the 1970s, she worked mainly in collaged and knitted works, with stuffed birds as a recurring motif. Later, she broadened to media such as drawings, photographs, and installations with a strong focus on clothes and plush figures. A complex, pictorial language connects the French conceptual artist&;s work, as well as an overriding interest in how delicate components can be fragmented and recombined to form something new.   Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Annette Messager: Exhibition/Exposition assembles a selection of the artist&;s works, including her most recent installations and celebrated pieces from across her career. With an essay by the exhibition&;s curator, Florence Thurmes, and an interview with Messager by the museum&;s director, Marion Ackermann, the beautifully produced book provides an opportunity to rediscover this important contemporary artist. Read Less