Widely recognised as one of the greatest living contemporary artists, Cindy Sherman is also one of the most reclusive. She rarely gives interviews about her practice, and you’ll never see her logging into Reddit to indulge in a quick AMA. Which makes an upcoming film with BBC Four, providing almost unheard of access to Cindy, all the more exciting.
“A friend of mine turned me onto one of the apps that’s supposed to prettify your face and I thought, well okay, I guess this is what we do now -- we take snap shots and share them online. To me I see them as sketches and maybe some of them will work their way into being real art pieces. We’ll see.”“I’ve never really very comfortable with clever little witty titles also I didn’t want to give away too much, I would prefer that the viewer comes into it with their own story.
“I had always been dressing up for fun as a kid. I would get dressed whenever I got depressed or confused about things I would just go into my room and turn into someone else. When I thought of being an artist my idea of what an artist was was someone who did those court drawings. I thought I’d be one of those or I thought I would teach I think because my mother was a teacher and that’s why I went to the college I went to, because they had a good teaching department.
“Barbara Jo stressed, you know, don’t worry about the technique, it’s more about the idea. But it was really Robert pointing out to me as I would sit in the bedroom and play with make-up to turn into different people just for fun, he said maybe you should be turning the camera on your face while you do that.”
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