The Many Selves of Gillian Wearing

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Gillian Wearing deals regularly in the kind of intimacy that many among us share only with our dentists. From one of her early projects, a series of 600-odd photographs called Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, in which she asked members of the public to spill their innermost secrets on cardboard signs, to her most recent piece, a self-portrait in which her age has been progressed to 70, she scours the…