Annette Messager

I saw this Annette Messager retrospective at the Hayward Gallery. I found the pieces in her My trophies were very appealing, they reminded me of illustrations of fables and myths. They were photographs on which she had drawn fantastic images. I also like the Story of dresses which was made up of several dresses encased in glass cases or coffins, like reliquaries. I was also interested in the way she had used gloves and pencils to form witch-like hands that were used to form the shape of a skull. My favourite piece was Casino, a room containing a sea of red silk that was made to billow up and around by a stream of air, to reveal illuminated objects beneath it, as it threatened to engulf the viewer.