Nojesguiden October 1998 Julia Tedroff
"Manipulative" Visiting an installation by the artist Annette can feel like a scene from a film by Peter Greenaway. Beautifully mysterious and yet frightening at the same time. A visual drama between different objects and figures where every possible means has been used to engage the observer, a drama loaded with meaning and brilliance. Annettes installations are something to be experienced rather than simply viewed. She is generous in expressing herself, giving so much of herself to both the subject of her work and the questions her work raises. She lets herself go into the great existential questions, starting from burning, topical issues, in a way that is far from the everyday. Her latest work, The Seer´s eye , is being displayed in the Art museum's eastern dome from the 2l October. In a room which she has transformed into a make believe laboratory. This time, the ethics behind the new gene techniques, views on humanity, and the laws of nature are being dissected. There is no fear in Annettes way of expressing herself and thus there is a power in her bold statements which engages the audience, and above all confronts the audience with questions. Her love of surrealism shines out of her creations, remarkable constellations oozing with loaded symbolism. Dreamsong, an installation shown at Boras Art Museum, consisted of a room filled with dolls whose heads had been swapped with animal heads, centaurs, writhing snakes, and animal horns. The installation French Breakfast, a beautifully laid out diningroom table, is reminiscent of a 15th century still life painting depicting mortality. At the same time, it can be seen as a criticism of the French nuclear tests carried out in the Mururoa Atoll. Glassware, porcelain, silver objects, fruit bowls, and palettes are overturned in the midst of rotting food, creeping insects, and gnawing rats.
