Gillian Wearing, private I
Art in America, Mar. 2003, v. 91, no. 3, pp. 100-105
This article is a critical review of Gillian Wearing's exhibition entitled "Mass Observation" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Oct 2002 - Jan 2003).
A thorough, insightful analysis of portrait photographs and video installations in a Gillian Wearing survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Wearing's first U.S. museum show probes the meaning of self-disclosure and reveals facets of social identity and psychological complexity through works largely informed by documentary practice.
In her first U.S museum show, Wearing investigates the complexities of identity, probing the "truth" of self-disclosure, via portrait photographs and videos that employ masks, overdubbing and lip-synching video installations.
ITEM 2003.102 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Self-Portrait – Gillian Wearing
2 into 1 – Gillian Wearing
Trauma – Gillian Wearing
Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say – Gillian Wearing
Sixty Minute Silence – Gillian Wearing
Drunk – Gillian Wearing
10-16 – Gillian Wearing
Broad Street – Gillian Wearing
7 Up – Michael Apted
The Family – Paul Watson
Franc Roddam
Richard Billingham
Tracey Emin