Cindy Sherman - More than a game of dress ups?
Cindy Sherman Exhibition GOMA Brisbane 28 MAY 2016 – 3 OCT 2016 – More than a game of dress ups? Cindy Sherman is coined as the great chameleon through her socially critical photography and has graced Australian shores with her first solo exhibition in 15 years at GOMA, Brisbane 2016. This exhibition could be viewed as traversing her earlier post-modern work, inside the ‘Pictures Generation’, into the contemporary arena. Sherman is giving a current interpretation of the age, a certain ‘kairos’, defining the invisible stretch of the digital upon identity constructs, social stereotypes and contemporary feminism albeit a white spray tanned aging narrative. Sherman’s obsessive preoccupation with this carefully constructed story-telling technique within a single image and the ability to crucially move with the digital times have given her the opportunity to work with some big names like fashion houses Balenciaga and Chanel. The exhibition includ...