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from Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say
(P78348-P78352; complete)
`Everything is connected in life...'
1992-3
Photograph on paper
frame: 1325 x 925 x 45 mm
image: 1190 x 790 mm on paper, print Purchased 2000 P78351
The series of called Signs... brought Wearing international recognition when it was first exhibited in 1993. This selection of five images shows the range of responses which Wearing elicited from passers-by, whom she selected at random, and asked to write their thoughts on a piece of . Wearing challenges social stereotypes and assumptions, and often works in collaboration with members of the public as a means of 'interrupting the logic of photo-documentary and snapshot photography.' She has said 'A great deal of my work is about questioning handed-down truths.'
(From the display caption September 2004)
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