Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst - Humlebæk

Exposição temporária - Cindy Sherman
Sherman manipulates her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, and stages herself as various figures that she invents or re-invents, after which she photographs herself in her studio. (…)Her whole idea with the stagings is to explore the cultural and social stereotypes as they are presented for example in magazines, advertisements, films and classic paintings.
(...) In her staged works Sherman questions the male gaze at women; women too look at themselves from a male point of view, as the only point of view that exists in a patriarchal society. The repetition and variation take the form of a subtle analysis of female identity. The fantasies (individual as well as collective) and the forces unleashed by these fantasies, emerge through Sherman’s stagings as sometimes playful, sometimes sombre, repulsive and horrifying.