Annette Messager creates installations which offer a catalogue of fragments; of bodies, identities and images. Similar to Lorna Simpson, her work features many small photographs but in this case, Messager has photographed parts of the body close up and positioned them together to form one whole piece, or what's best described as a cross between sculpture and photography.
The photographs themselves depict sensuality and sexuality in the pointed tongues of women, age in the balding head of a man, and absurdity and randomness in an elbow or knee close up. They represent the embrace of human diversity which is a key theme in my project because identity is a concept based on similarities and differences and this diversity in the human race conveys that.
This piece, which I saw at the Tate Modern, makes me think of people's possessions and recording information. I may use this idea in my family tree model as it would be a unique and creative way to record the facts and data that I have researched.
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