One Fine Show: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art
Category
Exhibition Review
Date
Jun 13, 2025
Source
Observer
Author
Dan Duray
Excerpt
“Not that her geographical identity trumps her other one as a cyborg. Hershman Leeson’s prescience about our apocalypse arrives at the tail end of a career in which she has always been ahead of the curve on how technology and bureaucracy would come to consume our humanity. One of my favorite pieces in her 2021 retrospective at the New Museum was her documentation for the project in which she played a character named Roberta Breitmore for five years starting in 1973, bolstering the fiction with a checking account and driver’s license, in addition to the wig…”