Selected Press

‘[Sherman's] characters, with their freaky, roiled features, seem to teeter on the edge of a breakdown, as if, after all the years of posturing and posing, the façade is finally about to give way.’

'There are now over 600 models of Sherman’s transformations to choose from. Each asks that we avoid confusing the dancer with the dance. The newest ones confirm that she’s still running as fast as she can.'

‘I’ve never really exposed anything about myself. I think it’s always been the opposite: I’ve been hiding.’

‘I’ve sometimes digitally manipulated images before, but this time I wanted you to see the collage, the hard cuts between the different parts of the image. The skin textures of the composite faces are quite different. I love the combination of colored and black and white parts of the face.’

‘Just how little she continues to spare herself is shown in her series of paintings that will be on display at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich from 9 June to 23 September: grotesque close-ups in black and white of her face, distorted beyond recognition, are reminiscent of the grimaces of the Baroque sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The artist’s central question, to what extent media representation defines our identity, is pushed to the limit here.’