More than forty years ago, Cindy Sherman debuted “Cindy Sherman,” the polymorphous persona that, since then, has been the artist’s primary subject: a reflection not only of herself, but also of mass culture’s often strange and troubling depictions of women as a whole. The seventy photographs from Sherman’s 1977–80 “Untitled Film Stills” series are part of an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth that examines some of her earliest forays into self-portraiture. Of course, as familiar as these works and the cinematic tropes they mine have become, they never fail to unsettle. Take Untitled Film Still #7,
Contemporary American culture is on trial, and the worst woman in the world is on hand to help figure out what’s wrong with us. Performance Space New York will present DIVINE JUSTICE, Ariana Reines’ 24-hour durational drama situating the feminine as the presumed authority of justice.
Hélène Akouavi Amouzou was born in Togo, West Africa, in 1969 and has been living in Brussels for the last twenty years. “Self- portraiture is a way of writing without words. My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself,” says Amouzou.