Annette Messager draws on children’s stories and their characters to question established social norms and fixed identities. By incorporating familiar cartoons, toys and children’s clothing into her work, she challenges the boundaries between high and low culture, male and female, and intellect and emotion. In Dissection II, Messager opens up a plush toy and a child’s jumpsuit as if performing an autopsy. The result is an unsettling work that challenges our expectations of objects typically associated with innocence, comfort and safety.