Casino echoes the structure of Annette Messager's eponymous work, winner of the Golden Lion at the 51^st Venice Biennale. The installation was freely inspired by the adventures of Pinocchio, the Italian hero seen as a "simulacrum of ourselves", and over the course of three acts explores identity, childhood with its play and fears, childbirth or cloning. In other words: the human condition.

An interview with the artist and curators of the exhibition, Suzanne Pagé and Béatrice Parent, as well as essays by Julia Kristeva and Didier Semin, explore the way Annette Messager conceptualizes her work.