Famed for her conceptual self-portraits, it would pointless to tackle the work of Cindy Sherman in an attempt to search for her ‘self’ within it. Sherman is considered one of the defining artists of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who, beginning in the 1970s, synthesized shrewd explorations of identity with the changing face of mass media and popular American culture. As is the case in Untitled 2002-2008, the artist makes use of garments, wigs and other objects as props to become and perform a new persona. As Chuck Close says, ‘Cindy always has to have role… there is no ‘real’ Cindy in any of that work. She’s perhaps the art world’s greatest actress’.