Cindy Sherman

Nietzsche's complaint that woman is always acting, that every woman is an artist, is the underlying premise of Cindy Sherman's work. Sherman is the model for her images: her early works are self-portraits that ironically reveal the categorical contradictions of the genre. She is Everywoman, and womanliness itself is a masquerade. If this reminds you of Epimenides's paradox of self-reference along the lines of "All women are liars ... I am a woman," it shows how far Sherman takes us into the defiles of the signifier

About the Artist:
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1995 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant. She lives and works in New York City.

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