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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May 2017
Gillian Wearing
Artist Gillian Wearing uses photography and video to produce a portrait of the complexities of contemporary life. This book takes a look at all of her work, contextualizing it in relation to 20th-century painting, photography and video art. The text discusses with the artist her collaborative approach towards her work and its subjects, and focuses on 10-16, a video installation that charts our transition from childhood to adolescence. The full transcripts of Wearing's videos are included.
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
From prescient proto-selfies to COVID and AI: the democratic portraiture of Gillian Wearing One of the most influential conceptual artists of her generation, Gillian Wearing first gained recognition in the 1990s for groundbreaking photographs and videos that recorded the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriended through chance encounters. In its candor and psychological intensity, her work extends the traditions of portraiture initiated by Sander, Weegee and Arbus. Yet in her ongoing attention to technology's role in the presentation of self, Wearing has presciently identified defining aspects of contemporary visual culture, from reality television to the rise of the sel...
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Gillian Wearing
This presents the largest survey to date of Gillian Wearing's work. Gillian is one of Britain's outstanding artists of the current generation.
Family History
This worked is based on Paul Watson's documentary 'The Family' which was first broadcasted in 1974. Wearing returns to 'The Family' starts a complex process of retelling, recreation and reconstruction. At the heart of this story is Heather Wilkins, the youngest daughter of the family shown in the TV show 'The FAmily'.
Paul Graham
Paul Graham's intense colour photographs map a social and cultural landscape. This work brings together portraits, landscapes and interiors from his British, European and Japanese series. Graham has exhibited worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London.
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing came from different backgrounds and were living in different times - about a century apart. Cahun, along with her contemporaries André Breton and Man Ray, belonged to the French Surrealist movement although her work was rarely exhibited during her lifetime. Together with her female partner, the artist and stage designer Marcel Moore, Cahun was imprisoned in German‐occupied Jersey during the Second World War as a result of her role in the French Resistance. Wearing trained at Goldsmiths and became part of the Young British Artist movement, winning the Turner Prize in 1997. She has exhibited extensively in the UK, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, and ov...
