Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Signed
Format: 25 x 21 cm
Pages: 208 pages
Illustrations: 150 images
ISBN: 9781855147508
Binding: Hardback
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Sarah Howgate is the Senior Curator of the contemporary collection at the National Portrait Gallery
Dawn Adès is a British art historian and teaches at the University of Essex
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Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing came from different backgrounds and were living in different times – about a century apart. Cahun, along with her contemporaries André Breton and Man Ray, belonged to the French Surrealist movement although her work was rarely exhibited during her lifetime. Together with her female partner, the artist and stage designer Marcel Moore, Cahun was imprisoned in German-‐occupied Jersey during the Second World War as a result of her role in the French Resistance. Wearing trained at Goldsmiths and became an established artist in the 1990s, winning the Turner Prize in 1997. She has exhibited extensively in the UK, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, and overseas, most recently at the IVAM in Valencia. Despite their different backgrounds, obvious parallels can be drawn between the artists: they share a fascination with identity and gender, which is played out through performance, and both use masquerade and backdrops to create elaborate mis-‐en-‐scène. Wearing has referenced Cahun overtly in the past: Me as Cahun holding a mask on my face is a reconstruction of Cahun’s self-‐portrait of 1927, and forms the starting point of this exhibition. In this book, Sarah Howgate, who has worked closely with Wearing, examines the self-‐portrait work of both artists, investigating how the cultural, historical, political and personal context affects their interpretation of similar themes. The book includes reproductions of over 100 key works, presented in thematic sections including Transformation, Performance, Masquerade and Surrealism, accompanied by a commentary. Also featured are new works by Wearing, one of which a ‘collaboration’ (of sorts) with Cahun. The book also includes an interview with Wearing and an illuminating essay on Cahun’s self-‐portraits by writer and curator Dawn Adès.