Installation view, Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2016. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view, Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2016. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view, Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2016. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view, Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2016. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Image: © Sherrie Levine. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography, London

Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans II, 2014, 1 of 24 giclée inkjet prints, edition 9 of 12. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans III, 2014, 1 of 24 giclée inkjet prints, edition 9 of 12. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans VI, 2014, 1 of 24 giclée inkjet prints, edition 9 of 12. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans XIII, 2014, 1 of 24 giclée inkjet prints, edition 9 of 12. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans XV, 2014, 1 of 24 giclée inkjet prints, edition 9 of 12. Courtesy of the Artist, Simon Lee Gallery and the Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York