Description

My Hand, 2012. Traditional Casting wax, paint and nail varnish. Edition of 30 accompanied by signed, numbered certificate. For assistance with enquiries about this work please contact Editions Manager Johanna Melvin on 020 7522 7882, or email your enquiry to [email protected]. Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing uses photography and film to explore the presentation of the self in everyday life. Employing the aesthetics of vernacular television culture as well as theatrical staging techniques, Wearing’s incisive work is emotionally affecting and genuinely impactful. Her fascination with how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, and her exploration of personal identity through often masking her subjects, plays with ideas of a kind of anonymity that allows us to be more truly ourselves. My Hand 2012 is a cast of the artist’s own hand produced for the Whitechapel Gallery after her acclaimed retrospective show Gillian Wearing, at the Gallery from 28 March-17 June, 2012.