On the sunny island of Menorca Hauser & Wirth Mount Cindy Sherman. womanthe artist’s long-awaited solo returns to Spain. Now enjoying the exhibition by October 26, she conducted four decades of investigation into the femininity of identity, fame and the performance of the broken identity mirror and provided eclectic characters for the feast of eclectic characters ShermanMake your own.
Like Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 Broadway drama, the exhibition is named after Sherman woman A loose portrait depicting the relationship between women, dissecting what her character sees and what the world around her is. Her work explores the roles women are asked to play, the images they live in, and the many gazes that shape their own self-perceptions, destroying the frequent gender, subject objects binary files that experience the tradition of the media in a pleasing way of talking to themselves.
Features early student programs Bus rider and The mystery of murder (1976), her breakthrough Untitled movie stills (1977-1980) and later series, e.g. Ominous landscape (2010), the exhibition charts Sherman’s clairvoyance of visual identity throughout the era. Early works mimic the metaphors of the mid-century and media, while later image toys have the idea of luxury, aging and digital skills, although the content throughout the process is always a constant criticism of performance identification – its fantasy, demand and ever-changing charm.
During a period of identity development and consumption through digital feed and stories, Sherman’s work remains unquestionable. In this culture of continuous planning, her portrait emerges, as a warning from clairvoyance, urging us to reflect on what remains under the role we play.
Hauser & Wirth Menorca
Spread Illa del Rei, S/N, 07700,
Balearic Islands, Spain
