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Gillian Wearing @ National Portrait Gallery

9 March 2017 - 29 May 2017

This exhibition Behind the Mask, Another Mask, brings together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing. Although they were born almost seventy years apart and came from different backgrounds, remarkable parallels can be drawn between the two artists. Both of them share a fascination with the self-portrait and use the self-image, through the medium of photography, to explore themes around identity and gender, which is often played out through masquerade and performance.
 

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Start:
9 March 2017
End:
29 May 2017
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National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin's Pl
London, WC2H 0HE United Kingdom
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