Second Self: The Art of the Female Alter Ego

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For years artists have been exploring the self by creating and existing as fictional characters – as seen in the many faces of Claude Cahun, the pseudo-life of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s alter ego Roberta Breitmore and in contemporary artist Juno Calypso’s haunting ‘self-portraits’ as the made-up character Joyce. With a deliberately tongue-in-cheek title, Nothing Personal – a forthcoming exhibition from Art Institute Chicago – delves into the timeless concept of…

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