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Gillian Wearing — Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say
Gillian Wearing

Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say

1994

Gillian Wearing's 1994 'Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say' is a series of twelve c-prints mounted on aluminum. This conceptual work explores themes of individual expression, identity, and the power of language through photographs of people holding self-written signs.

Medium
c-print mounted on aluminium, in twelve parts

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(Women) Artists

March 10, 2023

Estimate: $20,000$30,000

Lot 34

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Gillian Wearing, Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, 1994

Gillian Wearing's 1994 'Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say' is a series of twelve c-prints mounted on aluminum. This conceptual work explores themes of individual expression, identity, and the power of language through photographs of people holding self-written signs.

Medium
c-print mounted on aluminium, in twelve parts
Year
1994
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Color, Conceptual, Photograph, Text-Based, C-Print, Social Commentary, British, Figurative, Multiple Panels, Contemporary

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