GILLIAN WEARING (B. 1963)
Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say MY GRIP ON LIFE IS RATHER LOOSE!, 1992-1993C-print, flush-mounted on aluminium
16 ½ x 11 ¾in. (42 x 30cm.)
Photographed in 1992-1993, this work is unique
PROVENANCE
Interim Art, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
LITERATURE
'Private lines: Gillian Wearing's signs - in pictures' in
The Guardian, 4 March 2012.
EXHIBITED
London, Interim Art,
Gillian Wearing, new work, 1994.
London, Maureen Paley - Interim Art,
Gillian Wearing, Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say 1992 - 1993, 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 21).
London, Whitechapel Gallery,
Gillian Wearing, 2012-2013 (illustrated in colour, p. 59). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne.
London, Maureen Paley,
Gillian Wearing, 2014.
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