Artista: Gilian Wearing

Birmingham (United Kingdom), 1963. Graduated from Goldsmith College in 1990, he works essentially with photography and video. His work focuses on the fears, fantasies and secrets of common people and how spectators react to his manifestations. His work centres on the dialogue and participation of all sorts of people, while his aesthetic and style has been aligned with the group of young British artists assembled in the exhibition “Sensation”. He has exhibited in group and solo shows at various museums and privately run galleries, most noteworthy of which were those celebrated at the Kunsthalle of Zurich and that which will be taking place in the year 2001 at the Madrid branch of Fundació “la Caixa”.