Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II 1994
Dimensions: duration: 35 min., 59 sec.
Copyright: © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley/ Interim Art, London | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this video piece is called "Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II" by Gillian Wearing. It's unsettling. The face seems both familiar and alien. What’s your take on it? Curator: It's a powerful exploration of anonymity and confession, isn't it? Wearing invites strangers to reveal themselves under the guise of disguise. This raises questions about vulnerability, identity, and the allure of the confessional. Do you think the disguise truly liberates the speaker? Editor: Maybe. It’s like a mask, allowing a different kind of honesty. I hadn't thought of it that way. Curator: Exactly! The work is a mirror reflecting our complicated relationship with truth and appearance. Editor: I'm left wondering what I would confess. Curator: A fruitful question to sit with.
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Responding to an advertisement in Time Out magazine, a series of participants took up Wearing's offer to make their confessions on camera. This work was inspired by 'fly-on-the-wall' documentaries and confessional TV chat shows, but it also evokes the religious ritual of confession and its modern secular equivalent, psychoanalysis. Wearing raises questions about the motives behind confession. Disguised, her participants are free to tell the truth about things to which they would never admit in daily life. At the same time, they can invent flamboyant lies without being caught out. Gallery label, October 2000
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