Cindy Sherman retrospective

Cindy Sherman (USA, 1954) has been one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Her work relies on the construction of identities and the nature of representation, strongly inspired by movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. The major carachteristic of her work is that she develops these identitary images with her own figure, giving us a whole range of emotions through it, allowing the construction of an analisys of the woman's role in society, as well, although she does not consider her work as feminist.
"To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite." (moma.org)
Right now you can see a great retrospective of her at the MoMA in NY, if you are there. If not, you can check it's wonderful website here.
If you're in Portugal you can see some of her works including the Untitled Film Stills, 1977–1980, with which Cindy Sherman achieved international recognition, in both the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon and the Ellipse Foundation in Cascais.

If you are a portuguese reader and seek more information you should read this interview by Carlos Vidal.

We leave you some images in chronological order.

Untitled Film Stills, 1977–1980:

Untitled #85, 1981:

Untitled #89, 1981:

Untitled #132, 1984:

Untitled #183,1988:

Untitled #199, 1989:

Untitled #211,1989:

Untitled #228,1990:

Untitled #355, 2000:

Untitled #397, 2000:

Untitled #458, 2007:

Untitled, 2010:

Untitled #512, 2011:

Doug Aitken - Sleepwalkers

This art piece is a nighttime, video installation that was displayed on MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), back in 2007. It shows eight large scale video projections that are placed on the facades of the museum.

Sleepwalkers is a narrative without beginning or end. It displays the nocturnal life of city inhabitants - an electrician (Seu Jorge), a bicycle messenger (Ryan Donowho), a businessman (Donald Shuterland), an office worker (Tilda Swinton) and a postal worker (Chan Marshall aka Cat Power).

This is a site specific cinema experience and Doug Aitken is the pioneer on this kind of display. The images in motion occupy the city providing an experience to the pedestrians. This raises an interesting question - the experience of the museum was inverted, there are no more walls or barriers, there is no more a conscious choice to enter the museum space. It becomes a larger urban experience where the building is turned inside out and the city becomes a laboratory. 

Take a look of the video below.

Images from http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/aitken/flash.html