Crise de Foi – Annette Messager
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The limited edition Crise de Foi is based on the work of the same name (Crise de foi, 2016), that Annette Messager created in response to Femen protests for women’s right to abortion. In the exhibition, it is presented as a part of the installation Wall of Uteruses, on which the artist brought together works responding to the public debate of the time.
The naked female body has traditionally been linked to vulnerability and the need to be covered. Messager gives it the opposite role. Her figure does not hide. She raises her arms, while slogans and banners in deep red spill across her skin. A delicately drawn line collides with the colour of blood. Fragility and strength, the body and political protest meet in a single gesture.
Even the title carries a double meaning. Crise de foi means a crisis of faith. Spoken aloud, however, it sounds exactly like crise de foie, the French expression for an upset stomach: something you simply can’t stomach, can’t swallow, can’t accept. Faith and resistance, soul and body, in a single phrase.
Such encounters of opposites are typical of Messager. She herself calls them “bad marriages”: unions of words, images and meanings that at first glance don’t belong together. In her work, humour and irony become a way into subjects that are anything but light.
The edition has been produced as a Giclée print on Hahnemühle Agave paper, which faithfully preserves the drawn character of the original work. Limited edition of 50, each print signed by the artist, numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. A powerful gesture that doesn’t end at the gallery door.
| Artist | Annette Messager |
| Artwork | Crise de Foi |
| Exhibition | Annette Messager: Tragikomedie |
| Place & year of completion | Prague, 2026 |
| Medium | Giclée – a museum-quality digital fine art print made using 8 to 12 archival pigment-based inks |
| Paper | Hahnemühle Agave, 290 gsm |
| Paper size | 610 × 420 mm |
| Motif size | 600 × 413 mm |
| Edition | 50 pieces, each numbered, signed, with a certificate of authenticity |
Annette Messager
Annette Messager (b. 1943) is one of the most important French artists working today. In 2005 she represented France at the 51st Venice Biennale, where she won the Golden Lion for best national pavilion. Her work has been shown at institutions including the Centre Pompidou, MoMA and the Hayward Gallery.
Since the 1970s she has combined drawing, photography, collage, objects and installation. Working with everyday materials, found objects and images of her own body, she has long explored femininity, gender, desire, memory and social expectations. She describes herself as a “thief of words.” Puns, humour and irony run through her work, so pieces that seem playful or poetic at first open up questions of the body, identity, power and social norms.
Additional parameters
| Category: | Limited editions |
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| Weight: | 4.1 kg |
| Artist: | Annette Messager |
| Categories: | giclée prints |
| Products: | limited editions |
| Exhibition: | Annette Messager: Tragikomedie |
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