Close-Up: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

Close-Up showcases works by nine prominent women artists from 1870 to the present day through the lens of the artist’s gaze and how this found expression in self-portraits and portaits of others. Starting with Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassat, in the 1870s and 80s, and continuing up to present day artists such as Marlene Dumas and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition aims to show how these artists’ views of their subjects has shifted over the past 150 years.

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, 1878,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The website includes nine short films in which actors look at each one of the artists from the exhibition, creating their own spoken portraita.