COVID-19 and Immersive Installation: Annette Messager’s “Penetrables"
Annette Messager, Penetration (Pénétration), 1992-94. Sculptures, installation, cotton stuffed with polyester, angora wool, nylon, electric lights. installation (variable). Monica Sprüth Gallery, Cologne (1994-95). Image from Annette Messager: the messengers, Prestel, 2007.
Penetration installation view from Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia from the exhibition annette messager: motion/emotion, july–october 2014. image from exhibition essay by curator rachel kent.
Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-ncov. cdc / cynthia s. goldsmith and a. tamin. public domain.
Illustration of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Alissa Eckert, MSMI, Dan Higgins, MAMS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Image Library, ID # 23312. Public domain.
SEVERAL TELEVISION NEWS PROGRAMS WITH STAGE DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF SARS-COV-2. IMAGE PRODUCED IN ADREU-SÁNCHEZ, C., MARTÍN-PASCUAL, M.Á. “SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF SARS-COV-2 IN THE MEDIA: AN IMAGEDEMIC ON SCREENS.” HUMANIT SOC SCI COMMUN 9, 24 (2022).
CORONOVIRUS INSPIRED STREET ART BY REBEL BEAR, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.
CARTOON BY BOB ECKSTEIN.
PLANTE, TULSA WORLD, MARCH 2020.
ARTIST: SIZETWO. LOCATION UNKNOWN.
GAZA CITY, 2020.
“YOU DON’T SCARE ME” BY SIWELA, PUBLISHED IN THE CITIZEN, SOUTH AFRICA. MARCH 2, 2020.
CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PLUSH TOY, DREW OLIVER’S GIANT MICROBES.
TOY BOOK VIRUS SMASHER.
DIY KNITTED COVID VIRUS, ETSY.
A BURGER SHAPED AS THE CORONAVIRUS AT A RESTAURANT IN HANOI, VIETNAM.
MASTER CONFECTIONER TORSTEN ROTH WITH CORONA ANTIBODY PRALINES, ERFURT, GERMANY.
VIRUS-THEMED HEADWEAR ON OFFICIALS IN INDIA.
CHENNAI, INDIA.
POLICE OFFICERS IN INDONESIA.
AN INDIAN TRAFFIC COP IN BANGALORE.
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, 2020.
A POLICE OFFICER DRESSED IN A COSTUME REPRESENTING THE COVID-19 VIRUS TRIES TO HUG A PEDESTRIAN, WHO RESISTS, ALONG PASEO EL PRADO AS PART OF AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ABOUT THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA. IMAGE BY JUAN KARITA / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
BOTH IMAGES: ANNETTE MESSAGER, PENETRATION, 1993–94. ANNETTE MESSAGER: MOTION/EMOTION, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SYDNEY, 2014. CREDIT: TEXTILE GAZETTE BLOG / FLICKR.
Annette Messager, Penetration (Pénétration), 1992-94. sculptures, installation, cotton stuffed with polyester, angora wool, nylon, electric lights. installation (variable: 500 h x 500 w x 1100 cm). national gallery of australia, april 1996.