The themes of modern television were further explored in Wearing's project Family History (2006) commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, and accompanied by a publication on the project. In the early 1990s, Wearing began putting together photography exhibitions where she worked with strangers. [16] But that's not the case, it might be that they have been reciting the trauma that they have experienced in their heads over many years. GILLIAN WEARING artistaren ALBUM izeneko proiektuaren zenbait irudi dituzu. This Turner Prize winner’s remarkable works draw on fly-on-the-wall documentaries, reality TV and the techniques of theatre, to explore how we present ourselves to the world. [6] Wearing presents this fictitious nature of the work as a report. Actors and con men make it their profession; the rest of us just make it our lives, preparing, as T.S. Intrigued? [24], Wearing's 2010 show People (2005–2011) at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery included work ranging from video, to photographic portraiture, to installation and sculpture. [7] Wearing herself, made up to resemble her relatives as they appear in actual photographs. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Eliot said, “a face to meet the faces that you meet.” [33], Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992–1993), statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, "Millicent Fawcett: Statue of suffragist to be unveiled in London", "Criminalising squatters will hurt British pop music", "Confess All on Video. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square. Still. [8] Wearing sees that Anthropology "attempts to compress human subjectivity into scientific objectivity". In her new series of large, eerie photographs, the London-based, Turner Prize-winning Gillian Wearing continues to explore the shifty nature of selfhood that has made her videos so discomfiting. Film theorist David Deamer writes that the film 'is a paradox. Executed in 2004, this work is number four from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs Gillian Wearing The OCA course notes state that Wearing’s Family Album series is questioning her role in her family history and also questioning the role her family has played in who she has become whilst the Tate says she is ‘seizing’ the identity of the person. In her new series of large, eerie photographs, the London-based, Turner Prize-winning Gillian Wearing continues to … [17], "60 Minutes Silence (1996)" is the piece that won Wearing the Turner Prize in 1997. [18] She created masks out of silicone of her mother, her father, her sister, her uncle, and a mask of herself with help from experts that were trained at Madam Tussauds in London. In fact each picture is of Ms. Gillian Wearing is known for photographs and videos that explore human relationships and social behavior -private, public and personal. Wearing’s new work is part of the exhibition Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask. The films and photographs of British artist Gillian Wearing (b. Birmingham, 1963) explore our public personas and private lives. John Slyce has described Wearing's method of representation as "frame[ing] herself as she frames the other". [2] This makes Wearing the first woman to create a statue that is in Parliament Square. They might just be looking away at something, but their expression could be read as showing a kind of depression in their overall behavior. The purpose was to … Gillian Wearing is interested in real life. Snapshot (2005) is a series of seven single-projection videos framed by a candy-colored array of plasma screens, each depicting different stages of the female life cycle—from the innocence of early childhood to old age. [4] In 1987 she attained a bachelor of technology degree in art and design and in 1990 she attained a BFA from Goldsmiths, University of London.[3]. The notion of ‘different faces’ is an ongoing thread throughout your practice. In her art she gives perfectly ordinary people a voice, examining and documenting the relationships between them. [8] This piece materialized after Wearing caught a glimpse of a woman she saw with a bandaged head while in her friend's car. Gillian Wearing, Family Album, 2003-2006. The selected participants represent the art world’s most creative and inspired curatorial visions from a cross-section of emerging, mid-career and established programs from around the world. [2], Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England. [네이버 지식백과] 질리언 웨어링 [Gillian Wearing] (두산백과) (157.5 x 130cm.) 1733 2003 Slyce, John, That Essence Rare: Gillian Wearing’s Family Album, contemporary, 2003, p26-30 2003 Smee, Sebastian, The art of the matter, The Independent Magazine, 18 October 2003 Princenthal, Nancy, Gillian Wearing, Private I, Art in America, Nº3, March 2002 [17] This process becomes paradoxical because of the difficulties that are encountered while recreating these casual snapshots. [8] This exchange between Wearing and the people she photographs makes the interaction more conversational rather than typical documentation methods of portrait photography.[13]. [17] The individuality of each member begins to assert itself as the recording goes on and the officers conclusively become “ordinary human beings”. [9] As John Slyce puts it: “Gillian Wearing does not suffer the indignity of speaking for others.”. Gorney Bravin & Lee. © Gillian Wearing [7] The use of masks also questions authenticity and how reality can be fabricated. In 2012, Wearing made a portrait of herself as the late French artist in which she is holding a mask of her own face. Self Portrait of Me Now in Mask framed c-type print 124 x 98 cm ... wax sculpture and wooden plinth 56 x 14 x 10 cm 2013. ArtSlant profile for contemporary artist Gillian Wearing. 534 West 26th Street, Chelsea. Intrigued? Through Jan. 10. In 1997, Wearing won the Turner Prize and exhibited videos such as 60 minutes silence which is a video of 26 uniformed police officers, but at first appears to be a photograph. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and … Gillian Wearing, Contact sheet from shoot of Self Portrait as My Sister Jane Wearing, 2003 This is from a test shoot a few days before the actual image sitting. Wearing’s work, in general, is … [31], On 24 April 2018, her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London's Parliament Square; it is the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square. The eight participants confess their trauma and the mask that is given reflects the age when they suffered their trauma, with the intention of transporting the viewer back to "the defining moment in the wearer’s lives". In Wearing's Broad Street (2001), she documents the behavior of typical teenagers in British society who go out at night and drink large amounts of alcohol. In Russel Ferguson's “Show Your Emotions” he draws Wearing's use of mask draws to an older tradition that runs back to at least as far as classical Greek tragedy: "One in which the mask functions not so much to substitute one identity for another as to obliterate the superficial aspects of physical appearance in order to reveal more fundamental truths". Call Gillian (1994) is a 30-minute long video where Wearing recruited strangers through posting an ad in Time out magazine and provided a space where participants would confess their terrors and fantasies to the camera, their identity protected by costume masks. Maureen Paley, the gallery’s founder and director, was born in New York, studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduated from Brown University before coming to the UK in 1977 where she completed her Masters at The Royal College of Art from 1978-80. When writing my essay regarding contemporary identity, I was inspired by the series 'Album', 2003 by Gillian Wearing and wanted to explore the concept of showing a piece of yourself through your parents.Wearing's piece consisted of a collaboration with Madame Tussaud's, where they had created wax figurines of the subjects in each portrait, leaving the eye area free for Wearing to look … Her work in photography and video at first appear like most other journalistic methods of documentation seen in television and documentaries, but after further examinati… Gillian Wearing (British, born 1963). Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing produces candid videos and photographs revealing the disconnect between our inner lives and public personas, the individual and society, and truth and fiction. Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. Self Portrait at 17 years old from Album, 2003. [9] As the viewer, access to truth becomes dislocated. 《60분간의 침묵 Sixty Minute Silence 》(1996), 《앨범 Album 》(2003) 등이 있다. Gillian Wearing (1963 born in Birmingham / UK) is a conceptual artist and lives in London. 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One of Wearing's first UK shows was held at the Chisenhale Gallery in east London, in June 1997. Wearing is known for her method of documentation of everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. Gillian Wearing deals regularly in the kind of intimacy that many among us share only with our dentists. In the late 1990s, Wearing made a three-channel video called Drunk (1997-1999), for which she filmed a group of street drinkers who she had got to know outside her studio against the backdrop of a white photographic backdrop. They stagger around, fall over, bicker, fight, sleep and in the end one of the men stands against the backdrop and urinates. Of these "confessional" pieces, Wearing stated, .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I decided that I wanted people to feel protected when they talked about certain things in their life that they wouldn’t want the public that knows them to know. [19] Wearing used a fixed camera and the length of the pose was long in duration, which resulted in an awkward personal moment. "Gillian Wearing: Confessions/ Portaits, Videos," Musée Rodin, Paris, April 10 – August 23, 2009 2008 "Gillian Wearing: Pin-Ups and Family History," Regen Projects, CA, July 12 – August 23, 2008 2007 "Gillian Wearing: Family Monument," special project curated by Fabio This trio makes obvious connections to earlier of her works, like Confess All On Video, 1994, Trauma, 2000, and Album, 2003, in which masks were a2011device that offered to her storytellers a necessary combination of disguise and freedom. Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as my Sister Jane Wearing from Album, 2003 We are all performers. © Gillian Wearing The tragic struggle between the unique self and the smothering hand of genetic destiny is something that anyone with parents and siblings knows only too well. For her series Album 2003, Wearing reconstructed old family snapshots using silicone masks fabricated with the help of experts from Madame Tussauds. Over the years I have encountered many of her self-portraits—especially the ones from the series Album (2003), where she wears astonishingly true-to-life masks of her family members or herself at a younger age—and scanned every single detail in search for a glimpse of the reality behind the accurate fiction, the present moment behind the reconstructed past. Wearing has always been interested in creating what she calls platforms that allow her subjects to articulate the “plethora of stories and experiences” they are … 28 March – 17 June 2012. [29], In 2013, Wearing showed her exhibit People: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions from 1984–2013 Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland (9 February-11 March 2013)[30], On 30 October 2014 her sculpture A Real Birmingham Family was unveiled in front of the Library of Birmingham. [1] Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square. A closer look reveals an odd waxy quality to the skin of each subject; and around the eyes you can see the edge of a plastic mask. Krystof Doris contextualizes Wearing's approach: “The relationship between observer and observed is first established, then reversed, but always recounted from the perspective of the artist.” [17] In 2003-2006, Gillian Wearing recreated photographs of her relatives that were found in her family album. In this way each participant goes on to star in their own short, which, while encompassed by director Gillian Wearing’s documentary, appears as its own moment of narration. Wearing a silicone mask with holes cut out for her eyes, the artist –forty years old at the time – reconstructs a photograph of herself taken in a photo booth as … [14] In Confess all on video. 1963) Self-Portrait at Three Years Old signed 'G Wearing' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse) digital c-type print in artist's frame 62 x 51¼in. I can understand that sort of holding on to things—it’s kind of part of British society to hold things in. Each of the five pictures, all hung on one wall, looks like a glossy enlargement of a photograph from a family album: they include old black-and-white yearbook-type pictures of the artist's mother and father; a professional head shot of her smiling uncle; a snapshot of her shirtless brother in his bedroom brushing his elbow-length hair; and a photo-booth picture of the artist herself at 17. Things are changing now, because the culture’s changed and the Internet has brought people out. Wearing Gillian Gillian Wearing in collaboration with Wieden + Kennedy HD film for projection with sound ... 2003. There is a recurring pattern in her work where she plays and mocks the idea of the artist as anthropologist, but her anthropological activities do not focus on discovering a foreign culture but instead challenges what we thought we already knew. I always think of Britain as being a place where you’re meant to keep your secrets—you should never tell your neighbors or tell anyone. [7] Wearing's work reveals that the camera does not take a neutral stance towards its object, but is rather a powerful mass-media organ that breaks down the divide between public and private. Chromogenic color print, edition: 4/6 plus 2 artist's proofs, 45 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (115.6 x 92.1 cm). 2003 O’Reilly, Sally, Gillian Wearing, Time Out, 5 – 12 November, No. HD film for projection with sound, 5 minutes, Gillian Wearing in collaboration with Wieden + Kennedy. [17] The works in Album then do not necessarily put the family members as the main focus; rather they capture Wearing's engagement with the family members. [15] The mask is a reoccurring device in Wearing's work and it functions as protection as well as an apparatus that empowers the wearer; by making their identities anonymous it allows them to express their identity without constraint. Photographic impersonation of others is not an original idea, of course (see Cindy Sherman, Nikki Lee and many others), but Ms. Gillian Wearing (b. Image courtesy IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern The use of masks in these works is a very simple and effective enabler for anonymous communication, offering the possibility to act or behave as someone else. Wearing's self-portraiture has its own creepy metaphorical intrigue. SMK now presents an exhibition featuring the Turner Prize-winning artist. Here Wearing wears a dress her sister wore in the 1980s. There is something of me, literally, in all those people – we are connected, but we are each very different’ GILLIAN WEARING Executed on a dramatic scale, Gillian Wearing’s Self-Portrait at 17 Years Old (2003) is an iconic work from her celebrated Album series. [17] They start creating the mask in clay from a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional object. Wearing shows teenagers partying at various clubs and bars along Broad Street, Birmingham. Wearing is known for her method of documentation of everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. Download PDF "The Encounter with Reality" Parkett, article by Gordon Burn 2004. Inspired by documentaries, reality television, and the artifice of theater, Wearing describes her … [3] She attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham. I discovered Gillian Wearing’s 2003 series Album in late high school.In it, the British artist painstakingly reenacted portraits of family members in their youth—her brother, sister, parents and uncle—by donning silicon prosthetics that mimicked their skin and facial features. Gillian Wearing Wearing a Mask of Gillian Wearing British-born photo, video and performance-based artist Gillian Wearing is best known for bringing home the 1997 Turner prize and her series of direct street portraits, Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-3). The participants – through their facilitator, Sam Rumbelow – explore the techniques of "the method", method acting, which will allow them to encounter themselves anew and so generate their own "self-made" film. MAGAZINE magazine interviews CALENDAR exhibits map exhibits list closing soon add an exhibit GALLERIES venue map venue list schools ARTISTS profiles curators Sign In; Gillian Wearing Profile | Artworks | Exhibitions | Network | Reviews | … [17] Wearing initially wanted to ask for permission to film the woman, although she decided to cover her own face with bandages and reenact what she had seen instead. [17] This work references into the canonical work in the history of photography of Cindy Sherman, though Wearing has shifted the focus to exploring her own persona and its underlying relationships as a social construct. Wearing follows these teenagers demonstrating how alcohol contributes to their loss of inhibitions, insecurities, and control.[22]. [6] as said by Doris Krystof: “Protected by masks, protected by their anonymity and protect by the free realm of art where their confessions are recorded but not judged, where there are no consequences to fear, no ideology or attempted appropriation to deal with, the participants could enjoy a sense of liberation and trust in their own voices.” [16], Trauma (2000) is a further exploration of confessing with a mask. [27], In 2012, a major retrospective of her work was held at Whitechapel Gallery, London (March–June 2012), which surveyed her career and premiered new films and sculptures. And it is the nature of the paradox that gives the film its power [...] The paradox emerges indirectly, a consequence of the two modes of narration of the film. Wearing’s aforementioned 1993 video Dancing in Peckham was another crucial inclusion for the show’s curator Nathaniel Stein.“It stated, ‘This artist is going to turn things upside down,’” he notes. Gillian Wearing (British, born 1963). In 2003, Wearing caused controversy with her cover for The Guardian's G2 supplement, consisting solely of the handwritten words "Fuck Cilla Black". [5] At first the image appears like a backlit group portrait of British police officers but after further examination the slight movements that they make reveals that it is in fact a video. [11], In her piece Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992–1993), Wearing made a series of portraits where she approaches strangers that she encounters on the street and asks them to write what they are thinking about on a white sheet of paper. [16], In Homage to the woman with the bandaged face who I saw yesterday down Walworth Road (1995), Wearing covers her head with white bandages and walks around in public. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. [10] How Wearing approaches her subjects then is by inviting the individual to include their own articulation of thought into the picture within the space that she has provided, rather than an objective documentation. [16] What's intriguing about this piece is that it seems like that it's not the first time that the participants have told their story because of how well rehearsed it looks. Founded in 2010, Independent is an invitational art fair devised by and for gallerists, which re-examines traditional methods of presenting, viewing, and experiencing contemporary art. Album is a suite of six self-portraits that Wearing made based on old photographs from her family album. Feb 23, 2016 - Explore Charlotte Adams's board "gillian wearing" on Pinterest. "Gillian Wearing on her Album Series (2003)" Parkett, interview with Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Gillian Wearing 2003 . [18] In an article for The Guardian she explains that the process takes four months per mask, and how at first "some people tried to direct me to use prosthetics, but I was adamant it had to be a mask, something that transforms me entirely, something that was not grotesque but real, like a trompe l’oeil". The drinkers are shown in different scenes individually and in groups. [6] Her work in photography and video at first appear like most other journalistic methods of documentation seen in television and documentaries, but after further examination it becomes apparent that they do not conform to mass-media conventions. [9] In an interview with Donna De Salvo, Wearing states: "For me, one of the biggest problems with pure documentary photography is how the photographer, like the artist, engineers something to look like a certain kind of social statement—for instance, you can make someone look miserable, when this is just one side, a nuance of their personality. See more ideas about british artist, a level photography, human condition. Album exhibition view: Maureen Paley, London 2003. Gillian Wearing. Don’t worry you will be in disguise. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Charles Clifton Fund, 2004 (P2004:14.6). Cornelia Parker, Christine Borland and Angela Bulloch were the other shortlisted artists.[21]. Don't Worry You Will Be In Disguise. [5] John Slyce has described Wearing's method of representation as "frame[ing] herself as she frames the other". [17] Her walk was documented discreetly from behind and there was a hidden camera installed inside of the mask, capturing onlookers’ horrid reactions. Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. Wearing Gillian, 2018. [26], Wearing was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to art. [17] These expensive silicone masks deteriorate easily after use, turning the photo shoot into a performative act where the action is unrepeatable. [23] The cover illustrated an article by Stuart Jeffries complaining about the cruelty of modern television. They’re always in turmoil and can go to two polar opposites." We have Facebook and Twitter where people tell you small details of their life.[20]. [32], Wearing lives and works in London with her partner, British artist Michael Landy. I couldn’t bear the idea of taking photographs of people without knowing". Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Charles Clifton Fund, 2004 (P2004:14.6). Produced with the assistance of professional makeup artists and without any digital manipulation, the pictures document impressive feats of disguise. Gillian Wearing takeover: behind the mask – the Self Portraits The artist leads us through the extraordinary creative process of making her family series in 2003 – including wrapping her body in a silicone torso for hours – in which she depicted herself as members of her own family the collection of images have been assembled to depict the … [28] The exhibition was organised with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and supported by Maja Hoffmann, Vicky Hughes and John Smith, and Dr Naomi Milgrom AO. So, second mode: fiction'. She has shifted, however, from sensationalistic sociology to a quieter, autobiographical mode. [5] In Krystof Doris’ text "Masks, Identity, and Performativity" he explains that the power relation between the viewer and the viewed (the police officers) are reversed due to the disciplining scenario that Wearing placed upon the group of police officers. She moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea School of Art and squatted in Oval Mansions. Cahun’s 1927 self-portrait, with kiss curls on her forehead and hearts painted on her cheeks, is playfully teasing. Chromogenic color print, edition: 4/6 plus 2 artist's proofs, 45 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (115.6 x 92.1 cm). Wearing enjoyed this method of photographing because "when they returned with something they had written, it challenged [her] own perception of them". [17], In the early 1990s, Wearing started putting together photography exhibitions that were based around the idea of photographing anonymous strangers in the street who she had asked to hold up a piece of paper with a message on it. She also exhibited Sacha and Mum showing emotions between a mother and daughter. Wearing described the piece as, "Things can not be finalized—- as far as emotions are concerned. Self Portrait at 17 years old from Album, 2003. Download PDF "I'm Desperate: Gillian Wearing's Art … Wearing said, "The piece is about authority, restraint, and control." By putting a version of someone else’s face on hers she is metaphorically ‘seizing’ their identity. an exhibition of historical photo booth photographic works are on display at musée de l’elysée lausanne. [25], Wearing also released her first feature film in this year: Self Made. [12] The photographed subjects that are from different backgrounds become unified through this paper where ‘all of a sudden you have to start re-appraising people.’[11] The audience's fantasies of imposing their own interpretations onto these photographed subjects are challenged and redirected by the paper that they are holding. 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