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    Gillian Wearing: 10-16

    Upper Level Galleries
    March 21, 2003 — May 04, 2003
    In video and photographs, Gillian Wearing elicits confessions and self-revelations from her subjects, exposing human behavior with all of its intimacies and inconsistencies. 10-16, a single-screen video projection, featured adult actors lip-synching to recorded interviews of children between the ages of 10 and 16. Some of the interviews are dramatic, like the 11-year old who says that her friend Antoinette “doesn’t always like to play with me. In fact, one day I’m going to kill Antoinette.” Others are incredibly sad, like the confession of the 16-year old who reveals “I developed chronic acne, what made matters worse was my weight. It was like being given this horrible mask to wear, some kind of clown’s body.” Past, present, and future are collapsed as one imagines that the nondescript middle-aged man who mimes this statement could once have been that boy. A signature piece for the Turner Prize-winning artist, 10-16 was donated to the Henry Art Gallery by William and Ruth True.
    ARTISTS
    Gillian Wearing
    CREDITS

    Curated by Elizabeth Brown, Chief Curator, and Pamela Meredith