'There has been a lot written about the death of privacy in our
hyper-connected world, but one certain casualty of our mediated lives is
the sanctity of public space, the generational erosion of the idea that
what you might want to tell your best mate you wouldn't necessarily
expect strangers to want to hear.'http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/gillian-wearing-whitechapel-gallery-feature
'Wearing's first landmark work was quite a quaint exercise in exposing
interior lives to the world. She approached people at random on London
streets and asked them to write down on a piece of card what was on
their minds. She then photographed them holding the signs. The images
were surprisingly revealing, intentionally and not – the City worker
with thinning hair who scrawled "I'm desperate", the black policeman who
wrote "Help". They not only gave her subjects a voice, they gave
viewers an instant snapshot of worlds of interiors. Some of Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say will be included in Wearing's compelling retrospective, which opens at the Whitechapel Gallery at the end of the month. I wonder how she sees them herself, now?'http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/gillian-wearing-whitechapel-gallery-feature
In the quest to find new ways to learn about people she learn t more of herself
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Gillian Wearing -"Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say"
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Published on Apr 13, 2012 by whitechapelgallery
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