Publisher/Oktagon

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"Nos Témoignages" is an artist's book by French contemporary artist Annette Messager (1943–). Since the late 1960s, Messager has built her own unique expression by working across diverse media such as photography, collage, embroidery, drawing, objects, and installations, focusing on themes of body, memory, identity, and femininity. She is internationally acclaimed as one of the leading contemporary artists, having won the Golden Lion at the 2005 Venice Biennale. As the title of this book, "Nos Témoignages (Our Testimonies)," suggests, she quietly depicts the ambiguous realm where personal memories and the memories of others intersect, by layering photographs, fragmented texts, and drawings. Rather than presenting a clear narrative, the composition, which evokes the viewer's own experiences and emotions by piling up fragments of images, can be said to be the culmination of the poetic method that is consistent throughout Messager's work. This book, which uses photography not merely as a record but as an expression that mediates memories and emotions, is a work that showcases a trend in contemporary French art that connects to the works of Sophie Calle and Christian Boltanski.