
The Fortune Teller
Cindy Sherman's The Fortune Teller engages with staged narrative and character portrayal, central to the artist's conceptual practice. The work investigates identity construction and the nature of photographic representation.
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October 21, 2025
Lot 315
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Yasumasa Morimura
Japanese · b. 1951

Morimura similarly uses staged self-portraiture and theatrical costume to explore identity construction and cultural representation through conceptual photography. Like Sherman in The Fortune Teller, he inhabits fictional personas to interrogate how images shape identity and meaning.

Nan Goldin
American · b. 1953

Goldin's cinematic color photography shares the theatrical, narrative quality of The Fortune Teller, constructing charged psychological portraits that feel both intimate and staged. Her work similarly investigates how photographic representation constructs and reveals character.

Nikki S. Lee
South Korean · b. 1970

Lee's conceptual photographic practice centers on assuming constructed personas and identities through costume and performance, directly mirroring Sherman's approach in The Fortune Teller. Both artists use theatrical self-transformation to probe the constructed and fluid nature of identity.
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