Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics Ana Núñez Rodríguez

Ana Núñez Rodríguez

Gaspard Choron

The playing stopped

individuality

We capture the fear and the struggle of losing one’s memory

Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics Ana Núñez RodríguezNational Portrait Gallery This book draws together for the first time the self portraits of French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun (18941954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they lived almost one hundred years apart, their work shares similar themes: gender, identity, masquerade and performance. Beginning with a visit to Jersey, where Cahun lived and worked until her death, and where the Cahun archive is housed,