Not on display
- Artist
- Lynn Hershman born 1941
- Medium
- Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 1026 × 853 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented anonymously 2010
- Reference
- P20340
Display caption
Roberta Breitmore was a fictional person, created, enacted and documented by Lynn Hershman from 1974 to 1978. During her four-year existence Roberta had a bank account and library card, attended weight watchers and rented an apartment. Roberta Construction Chart #1 gives detailed instructions on how to create Roberta’s appearance. In Roberta’s Body Language Chart, Roberta is photographed during a psychiatric session with annotations interpreting her body language. Hershman later recalled: ‘With the completion of Roberta, I finally closed the chapter on that idea of the single woman – Roberta and me – as victim.’
Gallery label, June 2011
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