Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask: National Portrait Gallery, London
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Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces.” -Claude Cahun, 1930
This exhibition brings together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing. Although they were born almost seventy years apart and came from different backgrounds, remarkable parallels can be drawn between the two artists. Both of them share a fascination with the self-portrait and use the self-image, through the medium of photography, to explore themes around identity and gender, which is often played out through masquerade and performance.
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