Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Oct 28, 2016–Feb 5, 2017
Lynn Hershman Leeson
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Since the mid-1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson has been exploring the relationship between identity, gender, and technology in her work, adopting the female cyborg as a figure of transformative power.
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941), Water Women 7, 1978
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941), Water Women 7, 1978. Collaged photographs with mirrors on vellum, 13 1/2 x 8 in. (34.3 x 20.3 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York © Lynn Hershman Leeson; photographs by Marc Brems Tatti; images courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941), Water Women 7, 1978. Collaged photographs with mirrors on vellum, 13 1/2 × 8 in. (34.3 × 20.3 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York © Lynn Hershman Leeson; photograph by Marc Brems Tatti; image courtesy Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York
The artist’s Water Woman series, which she has worked on for more than thirty years, addresses questions of transformation and exchange more metaphorically. The images allude to disappearance, evaporation, and atmospheric connections among the body, air, water, and electrical currents. The women depicted are often inverted or multiplied, undermining notions of fixed identity.