Die Zu Sein Scheint, Die Bin Ich : Birgit Jügenssen ; Cindy Sherman ; Katharina Sieverding ; Francesca Woodman - Karpowski, Annika (Berlin : Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2018)
Galerie Thomas Schulte presents with the exhibition Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich photographs from the 1970s by Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, and Francesca Woodman. The artists demonstrate, how – using self-timer and masquerade – each has found her own very individual way to express her ideas. Common ground for their representations are the artists’ own faces and bodies, which, both as tools and medium unrestrictedly at their disposal. Although the artists did and do not necessarily see their work in an explicitly feminist context, it helped to extend the field of photographic self-representation and female iconographies. While the work is less about a want of representation, instead the artists are both subject and object of the photographs; they are both present and simultaneously absent. They masquerade in such a way that the subject is not their own identity, but the context in which they pose.(from publisher)
Die Zu Sein Scheint, Die Bin Ich, Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, Francesca Woodman, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 17 september to 26 november 2016
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Keywords: Jürgenssen, Birgit; Sherman, Cindy; Sieverding, Katharina; Woodman, Francesca