GILLIAN WEARING
2011-10-31Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s photographs and films explore the public and private lives of ordinary people. Fascinated by how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, she explores ideas of personal identity through often masking her subjects and using theatre’s staging techniques.
This major exhibition surveys Wearing’s work from Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992–3) to her first feature length film, Self Made (2011).
Opposite – Self Portrait at 17 Years Old, 2003
Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2012
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
