PUBLISHER’S EYE: Gillian Wearing
Regen Projects

by | Nov 9, 2023

Including photography, painting and video, Gillian Wearing’s show, titled “reflections,” rethinks portraiture and perception, as the artist is well known to do, with many of the works directly referencing artists from the past and their compositions. In a striking photograph with a bold blue frame, Wearing appears as Artemisia Gentileschi, donning one of her famous silicone masks and holding a porcupine quill dipped in red paint; Rembrandt’s Eyes depicts her with a modern red puffer jacket and blue hair clip, rendered in the style of one of the Dutch painter’s self-portraits. One wall of the show highlights her smaller paintings of interiors, which all feature doors or mirrors, things that most likely all of our houses contain, perhaps tying back to a sentiment made in her 2018 video Wearing, Gillian—that we all step out of the door wearing a mask. The video, which used AI to put Wearing’s face on the bodies of strangers that acted and read a script as the artist, conveys the artist’s interest in truth and identity as well as people and their stories; with Wearing assuming various guises within her work, this piece allowed others to become her, all of them stating to the camera, “I am Gillian Wearing.”

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