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Selected works by Cindy Sherman features in the After Image at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 2 Aug-Sat 27 Sep. The Cindy Sherman Serpentine Gallery retrospective exhibition travels to the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 6 Dec-7 Mar. Thanks to GNER for travel to London. Contact 08547 225 225 or visit www.gner.co.uk
As well as Cindy Sherman, After Image brings together the work of three important artists who use photography and their own bodies to explore female identity. Words: Helen Monaghan.
Francesca Woodman In 1981. Woodman took her own life. She was 22. The work she left behind. which has only recently been released from her archive. was extraordinary. Influenced by the surrealist movement. she photographed her own body (frequently nude) in relation to space and objects. She would smear herself with paint. bind her legs with tape or envelope herself beneath peeling wallpaper. reducing her body to just a blur.
Ana Mendieta For so long. Mendieta was referred to only as Carl Andre’s partner but she was an artist in her own right. Her Facial Hair Transplants (1972) was inspired by Duchamp's postcard reproduction of Leonardo's Mona Use in which Duchamp added a moustache and beard. She did the same to her own face. transforming herself from a young girl to a young man. Mendieta died at the age of 36. the result of a tragic fall from an apartment.
Slmryn Gill Gill is of Indian origin, was born in Singapore. brought up in Malaysia and then moved to Australia. Her work is concerned with identity and the Vegetation series looks at cultural identity and ethnicity. Using indigenous plants to cover up her face. she looks at issues of belonging to a place. And in the series Dalam. she photographed 258 living rooms of complete strangers.
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