Friday 12 December 2014

Gilliam Wearing 'Album' Series

Here is what Gillian Wearing titled 'Album'. It consists of 6 images in which she has recreated old family images by placing wax masks of her family and posing to be them, distorting the reality into surreal and eerie images.  

Here in these images we find Gillian posing as her grandfather and grandmother (top left and top right), her mother and father (middle left and middle right) and her sister (middle right) as well as her younger self at the age of three(bottom left). I particularly like how Gillian has created a very different tone to these images through her recreation. There is a definate eeriness within these images and upon further inspection it is possible to say this is because of how the eyes of her 'family' are all exactly the same and are also the only real areas that give a clue it is in fact a mask. This eeriness is similar to that of which I want included in my dolls house image and further leads to how I will have replaced the location of an actual lifesize bedroom with that of a model dolls house bedroom.

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