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Untitled #167

  • 1986
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Chromogenic color print
  • 152,4 x 228,6 x 0,4 cm
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An imaginative little girl, fond of dressing up, is naturally drawn to fairy tales, stories of witches and monsters. Here Cindy Sherman plays on contrasting scales, as in Untitled #150, where a giant with its tongue hangingout stands over the Lilliputians. Or she creates a dark forest where a body lies (Untitled #155). She uses prostheses (snout, teeth, breasts, buttocks, and legs) to invent hybrid figures, between human and animal. Cindy Sherman plunges into sordid and macabre, metamorphizing into a sow (Untitled #140), an ogress, a woman crouching on the ground, strewn with pebbles and shells. The same background can be found in Untitled #143, with a soiled bearded face with bite marks. In Untitled #146, with a woman draped in a turban she evokes an astounding tale. For Cindy Sherman, facing the disturbing strangenessand horror is her way to prepare for the unthinkable.

Crédit artiste : © 2020 Cindy Sherman Crédit photographique : © Primae / Louis Bourjac

Cindy Sherman

Born in 1954, and living and working in New York, Cindy Sherman has, since the late 1970s, developed a body of work devoted to staging her own persona – work whose success and fame have extended far beyond the realm of art itself. Paradoxically, it is by disappearing behind masks and costumes, make-up and special effects that Sherman has become an icon, challenging the very concept of the portrait.
Cindy Sherman associates the characters in her photographs with roles that she embodies.

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