FOMU | Photo Museum
Active tour – Cindy Sherman (Ensor 2024) – secondary schools
From September 28th 2024 until February 2nd 2025
No one can escape beauty ideals, they influence how we form and express ourselves. Sherman holds up a mirror to us and pierces through clichés. Can you escape the manipulative power of social media and dominant visual culture? Explore and discover Cindy Sherman’s satirical and socially critical portraits on an interactive 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, English
Available time slots
To see if the desired time slot is available, enter the number of participants under ‘Group size (Group ticket)’, choose the 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 industry 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. Sherman relates to the dominant media at the 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:
- For whom: secondary education, for all directions. When making your reservation, please indicate the age, level and/or area of interest of the pupils, so our guide can prepare the visit to suit your needs.
- Maximum 20 persons per group
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Per group of 20 students, 2 supervisors get free admission. For each group of 20 students, at least 1 supervisor must be present.
- Museum admission: free for visitors under 18 years old
Contact details for visitors
2000 Antwerpen