. . .the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics. (Walter Benjamin)
"Morimura respods to and confounds links between his art and Sherman's in To My Little Sister: Cindy Sherman (1998), a remake of her Untitled #69 (1981). In Sherman's photograph from the series "Centerfolds", which employs the horizontal aesthetic of a magazine's double-page spread, she plays a dreamy and suggestive girl without a recognisable identity. Morimura however portrays Sherman herself - depicting her as she depicts the girl - and thus enables the dual elements of person and persona, reality and fantasy, original and variation to mingle" (Nicolas Bissaker in the latest issues of Sleek Magazine)
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