Annette Messager : Les tortures volontaires

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Annette Messager : Les tortures volontaires

[concept, Cristina Steingräber, Clemens von Lucius ; traductions, Jeremy Harrison, Klaus Roth]

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013

collector's ed

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Text in French, English, and German.

Folded leaves bound together by a piece of string

In slipcase

"Annette MessagerLes Tortures Volontaires (1972), 2013. Two gelatin-silver prints in passe-partout presented together with the book in a protective box. Unique prints, signed sheet size: 19 × 14 cm each. The 'Les tortures volontaires' series consists of eighty-one works of which Annette Messager has made available forty diptychs in their original format as gelatin-silver prints. Each collector has the unique opportunity to select two motifs from the series, which are then printed once for this edition, thus each motif isexclusive to the collector." -- Colophon verso

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"Beauty knows no pain" is a phrase that, upon closer scrutiny, is shocking and disturbing. The French artist Annette Messager (*1943 in Berck) began pursuing this idea in the seventies when she assembled photographs from magazines for her groundbreaking series Les Tortures Volontiers (Voluntary Torture). In Messager's photographs, which are as alarming as they are absurd, breasts are lifted into suction cups, thighs are massaged with electricity, exfoliations look as if a second layer of skin is being peeled off. Yet the laughter sticks in the viewer's throat, because women all around the world still actually submit themselves to these and other procedures in order to look more like the norm and more "beautiful." Messager recently rediscovered these prints in her studio. This is the first time the eighty-one-part series has been published in its entirety and in its original size. In the accompanying essay, the artist, whose work has been exhibited multiple times at the documenta, discusses the genesis of the series.

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