FOMU | Photo Museum
Guided tour – Cindy Sherman (Ensor 2024)
From September 28th 2024 until February 2nd 2025
Anti-Fashion is the first major Cindy Sherman retrospective in Belgium. Discover the satirical and socially critical portraits of this world-famous artist during an active tour with a FOMU guide.
FOMU brings the American photographer Cindy Sherman (US, 1954), one of the most important living artists, to Antwerp. The Anti-Fashion exhibition departs from a fashion perspective and shows the interaction between her free work and her assignments from the fashion industry. Since the 1980s, Sherman has worked with influential designers and fashion houses such as Comme des Garcons, John Galliano and Chanel, as well as magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
Dutch, French, German
Available time slots
To see if the desired time slot is available, enter the number of participants under ‘Group size (Group ticket)’, choose de guide language and select the date.
From 27/09/2024 10:00 pm (UTC) until 02/02/2025 10:59 pm (UTC)
Sherman’s interest in the fashion world is subversive: she questions the system with all its pitfalls. Her photographs show figures that invert all conventions of haute couture and the usual representations of beauty. For Sherman, fashion is a starting point for critical questions about stereotypes, gender and ageing. Through grotesque exaggeration she wants to expose visual clichés and question ideals of beauty. Over the years you can see that she closely relates to the dominant media at that time. Her work reflects the increasing digitization of our visual culture and increasingly far-reaching forms of manipulation, which inevitably influence our self-image.
This exhibition is part of the festive year ENSOR 2024. FOMU links up with ENSOR 2024 by translating the issues from James Ensor’s oeuvre into a contemporary artistic context. Like Ensor, the American artist Cindy Sherman is known for her critical and ironic commentary on social conventions through masquerades. The exhibition Cindy Sherman – Anti-Fashion in FOMU covers several floors, in a specially developed scenography. A unique opportunity to see so much of Sherman’s work together.
Practical information:
- This guided tour is suitable for groups of adults
- Maximum 20 persons per group
- Duration: 90 minutes
Contact details for visitors
2000 Antwerpen