“None of the masks from a distance look like disguises; it’s only when you get closer you can see they are. A sense of uncanniness comes from realising that. The masks are made with great care to detail and realism. We are used to thinking of masks within horror, dressing for fun, going in disguise to a party, something to shock and surprise people. Seeing a real detailed face as a mask is surprising.”
Gillian Wearing cited in: Osman Can Yerebakan, ‘We Carry Our Younger Selves Around’: Gillian Wearing on Life, Art and Time,’ Another, 17 November 2021, online