DOUBLE FACE

Construction of identity

The exhibition contain photographs and videos by Urs Lüthi, Birgit Jürgenssen, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Suzy Lake, Hannah Wilke and David Wojnarowicz in dialogue with more current positions by Aneta Grzeszykowska, Laura Ribero and Kate Gilmore. The construction of identities has been around in art for decades, although different aesthetic strategies are used to process them. For example, Laura Ribero and Aneta Grzeszykowska make reference to Cindy Sherman’s role-plays and focus in their own way on the clichéd presentations of women in the media. These role-plays form the methodical foundation for escaping societally specified roles through a range of attempts and – as the philosopher Gilles Deleuze says – to transform the “incarcerated self” in the process.