Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks

At Guggenheim Exhibitions, *Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks* presents the British artist’s ongoing inquiry into identity and performance through the literal device of the mask. Wearing’s work often stages ordinary people, and sometimes herself, in constructed roles that expose how public life is built from rehearsed selves. Shown in New York, the project reads in conversation with the city’s own culture of visibility, surveillance, and self-invention. The clearest critical takeaway is also the simplest: concealment becomes a method for candor.