![Image: Warwick Thornton, [Meth Kelly] (video still), 2020. High definition 4K digital video, colour, stereo sound
4 minutes 4 seconds. Commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney 2020: NIRIN. Warwick Thornton. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/web-size-Warwick-Thornton-Meth-Kelly-still-200x111.jpg "Image: Warwick Thornton, Meth Kelly (video still), 2020. High definition 4K digital video, colour, stereo sound 4 minutes 4 seconds. Commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney 2020: NIRIN. Warwick Thornton. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.")
Late viewing: Gillian Wearing
29 April 2022
![Image: Gillian Wearing, [Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper], 2015. © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rock-n-Roll-70-wallpaper-2015-©-Gillian-Wearing-courtesy-Maureen-Paley-London-Tanya-Bonakdar-Gallery-New-York-and-Regen-Projects-Los-Angele-200x176.jpg "Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper, 2015 © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele")
Image: Gillian Wearing, Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper, 2015. © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele
Image: Gillian Wearing, Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper, 2015. © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele
When
29 April 2022
Friday, 4-7pm (AEST)
Region
Town Hall Precinct
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Price
Free, no bookings required
Join us for a late viewing of Gillian Wearing’s Editing Life, as part of the PHOTO 2022 launch weekend.
Inspired by documentaries, reality television and the performative nature of identity, British artist Gillian Wearing describes her approach to photography and video art as ‘editing life’.
After asking collaborators to imagine how she might look at 70, Wearing used artificial intelligence and age-processing tools to depict her possible future selves. Printed on wallpaper wrapping the gallery, these huge self-portraits highlight the unpredictability of time, revealing the limitations of what we believe to be pioneering technology and further emphasising the uncertainty of what lies ahead.
In the short film Wearing Gillian we meet a series of strangers who appear to look like the artist using deepfake technology. Wearing asks us to question contemporary media culture and what we accept to be someone’s true identity.
Gallery 3, Ground Floor
ACMI, Fed Square
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Artist
Gillian Wearing (UK)
Born 1963, Birmingham, UK
Lives and works London, UKGillian Wearing was born 1963 in Birmingham and currently lives and works in London. She was recently commissioned by the Mayor of London to create a statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, which was unveiled in April 2018. Wearing won the Turner Prize in 1997 and was awarded an OBE in 2011 and a CBE in 2019 for contribution to the arts. A survey exhibition of Gillian Wearing’s works will be held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA in November 2021
![Image: Honey Long & Prue Stent, [Vellum], 2021. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vellum-200x133.jpg "Vellum")
![Image: Arini Byng, [Remember what you heard when you weren't even listening] (video still), 2019–21. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/HERO-RememberwhatyouheardwhenyouwerentevenlisteningStillAriniByng1-200x106.jpg "HERO - RememberwhatyouheardwhenyouwerentevenlisteningStillAriniByng1")
![Image: Sanja Pahoki, [The Fall], 2021.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The_Fall_2021_SanjaPahoki-200x90.jpg "The_Fall_2021_SanjaPahoki")
![Image: Danie Mellor, [The spectre], 2021. Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DanieMellor_The_spectre2021-175x200.jpg "DanieMellor_The_spectre2021")