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Claude Cahun

Left: Claude Cahun, 'I am in training don't kiss me', c.1927. Right: Gillian Wearing RA, 'Me as Cahun holding a mask of my face', 2012.

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The many masks of Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun

As a new show at the National Portrait Gallery places the two artists side by side, Lauren Elkin explores how Gillian Wearing RA finds identity-blurring inspiration in the inter-war writer and photographer Claude Cahun.