Cindy Sherman | Cindy Sherman – Tapestries

These startling images, commenting on the phenomenon of face altering apps/applications, have now been given a new grandeur and permanent status using the fine and revered craft of tapestry. In Tapestries Sherman brings 21st century ‘face’ technology together with the traditional craft of tapestry making.

 

Too small in format to be reproduced in photography at epic scale, Sherman uses tapestry to elevate these shape shifted selves to the importance and permanence of the official portraits made for nobility and the wealthy. These works are Cindy Sherman’s first major exploration of a medium beyond photography.