Taken from a catolgue of Cindy Sherman's work, the following quote is from an article titled The Other Self of the Imagination: Cindy Sherman's Hysterical Performance by Elisabeth Brofen
"By presenting herself other then what she is, by refashioning the media images and narratives that influenced her self-image, she insists that the act of self-representation, as a means of expression, simultaneously always also performs the act it designates…..The subject of the portrait has been created performatively, in fact it can only be articulated as a performance. The represented subject can, therefore, be understood as a knot, binding together various languages that have shaped it and through which it is able to express, in a displaced and dislocated manner, its traumas, its memories, its desires and its fantasies. In addition, this represented subject performatively embodies the laws and dictates imposed upon it by the family and by society, as well as culturally acquired repertoire."
Elisabeth Bronfen, Cindy Sherman: Photographic Work 1975-1995, ed. by Zdenek Felix and Martin Schwander. (Germany: Schirmer Art Books ,1995), 14.
Although in my work, I attempt to suggest a stronger link between family and society then with my pop cultural surroundings, I think the sentiments, both general and specific, apply accurately to my work.
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