VertiGhost

VertiGhost

Lynn Hershman Leeson
2017, 12:47 min, color, sound, HD video

Description

Hershman Leeson interweaves interviews with experts in the fields of art history and restoration, gender studies, psychology, and film, reflecting on Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The artist dresses each of her subjects as the character Judy, reenacting her contemplation of the painting Portrait of Carlotta in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. The video’s subjects speak to the role of artifice, authenticity, and gendered subjectivity through the process of identification; identification with other people, characteristics, or experiences, and the identification of artworks within the art historical process. The work was commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.