{"id":7654,"date":"2011-10-12T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:56:53","slug":"artist-of-the-month-gillian-wearing-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/artist-of-the-month-gillian-wearing-trauma","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Wearing &#8211; Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the framework of the series <em>Every Month<\/em> selections from the museum\u2019s permanent collections are presented from October 12th until December 8th on the mezzanine. Gillian Wearing has been chosen as <em>Artist of the month <\/em>for October \u2013 November with the video installation <em>Trauma, 2000<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In her work, the artist uses the techniques of film and television to record comic or dramatic moments of individuals or groups. In the video installation titled <em>Trauma<\/em> she invited people to speak in front of the camera about traumatic experiences of their childhood, covering their faces with plastic teenager masks. Through revealing and very personal confessions \u2013 interviews of everyday people, which she either records in public spaces and then edits in her studio or directs in their entirety by herself, she approaches with sympathy marginalized groups, their traumatic experiences and their problems, providing the viewer with a representative picture of the British and in general of contemporary Western society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the framework of the series Every Month selections from the museum\u2019s permanent collections are presented from October 12th until December 8th on the mezzanine. Gillian Wearing has been chosen as Artist of the month for October \u2013 November with the video installation Trauma, 2000. In her work, the artist uses the techniques of film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":76618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78377,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/78377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}