With Sherman, absolutely nothing is what it seems
HER FOUNDATIONS ARE BUILT ON HOLLYWOOD CINEMA“‘Untitled Film Still #21’ belongs to the series that really commenced Sherman’s mature work. It’s the series which, when it was first exhibited in New York in 1979, really brought to the attention of a wider audience a really distinctive and unusual artist.
“Her fascination with inventing characters continued after she went to Buffalo State University. On one occasion she was in role, dressed up, impersonating the American comedian Lucille Ball, and she was exactly like that real person, and her friends said: ‘Why don't you take a photograph of yourself, dressed up in that way?’ which she did.
“She then used chairs and other household objects, background scenes, when she moved outdoors in New York to flesh out the tableau. But as the work has developed it's become progressively more elaborate and more sophisticated. Around the time of the, prosthetics began to become part of Cindy’s armoury. She was moving beyond costumes, beyond weight, beyond makeup, beyond simple objects.
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