{"title":"Messager, Annette","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"les-tortures-volontaires","title":"Les Tortures Volontaires","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\"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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMessager 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA series of 82 reproduced b\/w photographs showing women (and two men) undergoing tortuous-looking beauty regimens; with a text by the artist in French, English and German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolded sheets held together by twine, with cardboard soft cover (33 x 25 cm), in cardboard cassette (34 x 25 x 1 cm), 92 not numbered pages, Berlin 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-3-7757-3686-2\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Messager, Annette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53487375974740,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0015\/8656\/1083\/files\/Messager_Les_Tortures_Volontaires_cover.jpg?v=1769789894"}],"url":"https:\/\/boekiewoekie.com\/collections\/messager-annette.oembed","provider":"Boekie Woekie, books by artists","version":"1.0","type":"link"}