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Article: GILLIAN WEARING.(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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GORNEY BRAVIN + LEE
Aren't you allowed to win the Turner Prize twice? Gillian Wearing should have been a shoo-in again this year (she won in 1997) on the strength of her three-channel video projection Drunk, 1997-99. Wearing's plan to cultivate a bunch of skid-row types over a period of years, give them the run of her studio, and film the proceedings--sounds like a recipe for disaster, not only for practical and aesthetic reasons but on ethical grounds as well. Yet the artist's formal rigor makes the work a minimalist masterpiece: at once somnolent and keyed up, like its subjects--a cross between Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett, if such a hybrid were possible.
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