Immersing into the world of Cindy Sherman’s photography, at the Vancouver Art Gallery

At the Vancouver Art Gallery, your immersion into Cindy Sherman begins immediately. Walk through the admission doors, and you are surrounded by eight different versions of her in a single, wraparound mural. In one portrait, she sports an anatomically correct baggy beige body suit and comfy grey socks, holding a Merlin-like sword. In another, she dorkily pairs a pink and white floral dress with running shoes; in her gardening gloved-hands she holds a bounty of scallions.

It is an ongoing experiment that has made her one of the world’s foremost conceptual photographers; one of the world’s most influential artists, period. Sherman famously plays with her own image and photographic technology to take on a role and create a fully realized scene. The works are almost always untitled, so you, the viewer, can come up with your own story.

There is Sherman the young art student, naked and bound in electrical cords that also become bikinis and self-explosive devices in a series of photos,, 1981, lying on a couch, her droopy eyes staring at the 1970s-era phone she had been hoping would ring. In, 1985, an androgynous figure in a baggy gingham dress is barefoot and bucktoothed, perched behind a tree in a dark forest – looking terrified, but also terrifying.

The show is presented somewhat but not strictly chronologically and includes work from her major series, including– the career-defining 1977-80 series created to look like publicity stills from movie sets.series, each featuring three magazine covers: the original , a second version where Sherman has made herself up to resemble the original cover model, and a third where, still in model mode, Sherman makes a funny face.

A Sherman image on its own offers a bring-your-own-interpretation delight. Here: Untitled #588, 2016/18.A Cindy Sherman show of this breadth would be momentous anywhere, for sure. But this retrospective, organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London in collaboration with the VAG, feels particularly important in Vancouver, like it has landed in the right place.

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