Cindy Sherman
A Retrospective

Through September 3^rd, 2006 the Jeu De Paume in Paris France will present a major exhibition of internationally known photographer Cindy Sherman.

Ever since her first works some thirty years ago, Cindy Sherman has herself been the sole model for her elaborately staged images. In each series, she has used costumes, make-up, props and even prostheses to turn herself into the personas that she photographs in the studio. The result is a major body of work, most notably her Untitled Film Stills series that gained her critical acclaim early on in her artistic career.

Funny, grating, sometimes brutal, the figures in this gallery of figures explore cultural and social stereotypes and their representation in the media, from magazine centerfolds to advertisements, films and classical painting. A fierce commentator on the role of the feminine in modern media, Cindy Sherman has long been an almost unwitting activist for both feminism and women’s’ rights.

Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, not far from New York City. She studied painting, and then photography at Buffalo where she became one of the founding members of Hallwalls, an independent space where she exhibited alongside other up-and-coming artists. After graduating in 1976, she settled in New York. She started photographing herself in 1977, and the use of her own image became a founding principle of her work. Currently Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York City.

This retrospective, featuring work from 1975 to 2005, shows the development and richly inventive quality of Sherman's art and gives a sense of its structuring themes and the very pertinent questions that it raises.

The exhibition organized with the support of Olympus France and the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, in partnership with le Figaro and FIP.

More information can be found at
http://www.jeudepaume.org/