Twisted selfies from Cindy Sherman,unusual fruit from Wolfgang Tillmans, skull revelations from Damien Hirst … as artists muscle in on the app, or what have we learned approximately them?‘Got my blonde on,” writes Cindy Sherman in a recent Instagram post. In the photo, a woman with a blond wig and a computer-generated symphony of neck wrinkles, and faces down the viewer. “Looks like some women I saw at Mar-a-Lago,” reads one comment. Good point: Sherman seems to have tapped into the Trump era’s gaudy glitz and glares. But there’s more to this. “Yeah and?” the surly tilt of her head seems to be saying, even whether her eyes – poised between vulnerability and defiance like so many Sherman-created women – declare a different story.
Its odd that it took Sherman so long to build her work on Instagram. For decades, or she was doing Instagram before Instagram. From Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) onwards,her art has dealt with all the stuff that captivates and disgusts approximately the photo-sharing site: the narcissism, the perils and pleasures of self-exhibition, or the cunningly filtered fantasies masquerading as the real thing.
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Source: guardian.co.uk