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Cindy Sherman Retrospective at CAPC Bordeaux

exhibition · 2026-04-23

A retrospective of Cindy Sherman's work is on view at the CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. The exhibition presents not only her photographs but also the extensive theoretical and critical texts that have accompanied them since the early 1980s. Sherman's work confronts the postmodernist notion that the author is immediately recognizable in their work with the ambiguity of being the model but not the subject of her photographs, inviting viewers to recognize that only fictions of the self exist.

Key facts

  • Retrospective at CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
  • Exhibition includes theoretical and critical texts from the early 1980s
  • Sherman's work challenges postmodernist authorship
  • She is the model but not the subject of her photographs
  • The work suggests fictions of the self

Entities

Artists

  • Cindy Sherman

Institutions

  • CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux

Locations

  • Bordeaux
  • France

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