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Gillian Wearing.


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Confess all on Video. Don't worry you will be in disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian... You may not want to come clean on tape, you might not feel you have much to own up to, but you can't help noticing an ad that tells you not to worry and is signed with the author's first name. Beneath its acuteness to subliminal
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 social fault lines, Gillian Wearing's work often has a sunny comic undertone. This retrospective, curated by Lisa Corrin corrin /cor·rin/ (kor´in) a tetrapyrrole ring system resembling the porphyrin ring system. The cobalamins contain a corrin ring system.

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, will include Trauma, 2000 (an extension of Confess all..., 1994), in which masked and wigged respondents to Wearing's ads recount painful memories from their youth; Drunk, 1999, a three-screen surveillance of a group of tipplers; and a new video work commissioned for the Occasion. Sept. 19-Oct. 29.
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Author:Frankel, David
Publication:Artforum International
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2000
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