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ICONS: Gillian Wearing, ‘Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say’ 1992-3

Mon 4 Aug 2014
12am

Gillian Wearing, ‘I’m desperate’ from Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, courtesy Maureen Paley/ Interim Art, London
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In some ways ***Gillian^^^ ***Wearing’s^^^ suited man holding up a sign saying ‘I’m Desperate’ came to represent a post-market-crash, recession sentiment.  He might have been desperate for love, or desperate for his next sale, whichever: like many in the rat race he

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Gillian Wearing