- Artist
- Gillian Wearing CBE born 1963
- Medium
- Photograph, digital c-print on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 1307 × 1052 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Tate Members 2014
- Reference
- P81099
Online caption
Wearing’s photographs explore how public and private identities of ordinary people are self-fashioned and documented. In her portraits and self-portraits she blurs the line between reality and fiction. For her series Album 2003, Wearing reconstructed old family snapshots using silicone masks fabricated with the help of experts from Madame Tussauds. By putting a version of someone else’s face on hers she is metaphorically ‘seizing’ their identity. Here Wearing wears a dress her sister wore in the 1980s. The only bits of Wearing that can be seen are her eyes and teeth.