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Gillian Wearing - (Paperback)

Gillian Wearing - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 28th Mar.-17th June 2012, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Daeusseldorf, 8th Sept. 2012-6th Jan. 2013, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 1st Mar.-9th June 2013.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>British artist Gillian Wearing explores the lives of ordinary people through her photographs and films, often masking her subjects and using staging techniques to challenge the public and private identities of her individuals. This monograph provides an overview of the artist's work from the early, iconic photographs of people holding up signs with written personal confessions or thoughts, titled Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992 - 93), to her latest video Bully (2010) in which the roles of victims and perpetrators, actors and directors are blurred"

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