Masks and Mirrors: Reflections of Femininity in Photography

Description

In her 1992 self-portrait Me:Me, British artist Gillian Wearing explores what has been described as 'the public masquerade of femininity'—implying that we are always performing our gender for others as well as for ourselves.   In our fast-paced age of social media, pervasive double standards of what is “feminine” alongside accepted behaviors and perceptions of beauty mar our daily lives. This exhibition presents a selection of works from the museum’s permanent collection that spotlight the interaction of gender and technology between the early use of photography and the dawn of the Internet.