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John Quin , January 23rd, 2021 09:55 John Quin isn’t convinced by Cindy Sherman’s new work online at Sprüth Magers, Berlin Cindy Sherman, Untitle #609, 2019. © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Metro Pictures, New York Is this Cindy Sherman a boy or a girl? That’s one of many questions the artist might presume the viewer asks when confronted by these carefully constructed images of mutability. We take it as a given that Sherman has a place in the history of twentieth century art. The famous fictional film stills series (made predominantly between 1977 and 1980) taps into our need for making up stories. The continuing popularity of those works reflects a persistent curiosity that begs – who is this person in the photograph? What are they up to? Someone new to these shots could be forgiven for thinking, is this taken from a movie I’ve seen before or one that I’ve missed? Is it from a movie at all? Sherman, we learn to read, is an artist pretending to be an

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