Repeat, repeat

Sculpture that comes to mind when considering repetition might include the work of Annette Messager. Annette Messager's artwork 'The Pikes' (1992-3) uses a lot of repetition with objects being placed on long pikes. The Pikes (1992-3) is half of an installation and subsequently divided into two works by Messager.

It comprises a dense arrangement of more than one hundred long  spiked poles or ‘pikes’, propped against two adjacent walls, each of which supports and impales a variety of objects and images (www.tate.org.uk)

In the installation many of the objects are repeated. The objects are limbless bodies made out of doll parts, stuffed limbs and internal organs, which are enclosed in sections of stockings and some are pierced by many coloured pencils.
With Messager, using lots of doll parts and hanging heads makes me wonder why she keeps repeating these installations as they seem scary and creepy. Messager had a traumatic childhood and these installations of hers refer to her own childhood memories. Annette Messager’s work can be described as macabre but Messager argues:

For me it’s a natural gesture to rip bodies apart, cut them up... I always feel that my identity as a women and as an artist is divided, disintegrated, fragmented, and never linear, always multifaceted... always pictures of parts of bodies, fragments and close ups... I always perceive the body fragments. (www.tate.org.uk)

Annette Messager repetition of processes and objects in her installations makes them much more interesting because I think the more objects there are the bigger impact it has on someone.