... Her carefully constructed productions can be likened to theatrical masterpieces in their own right. Her work has an uncanny ability to return the gaze back to the viewer - to leave the viewer mesmerised - unsure of themselves and their interpretation of these representations. Her productions force the observer to identify with their own meaning. On meaning, Hall writes, "Meaning does not inhere in things, in the world. It is constructed, produced. It is the result of a signifying practice - a practice that produces meaning, that makes thing mean" (Hall, Pg 66). Marco Meneguzzo writes of Sherman "Where the construction of the image leaves more space or the possibility of narration to the observer..." (Meneguzzo Pg 12). Sherman's career can be seen as one of growth and maturation in which she has managed to destabilise and deconstruct the phallocentric gaze of the symbolic other, challenging historical patriarchal discourses associated ...

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