Gillian Wearing's Whitechapel Retrospective and Sara VanDerBeek's Sculptural Dancers at The Approach

From March 28 to June 17, 2012, London's Whitechapel Gallery will host a retrospective of Gillian Wearing, organized by Daniel Herrmann and Doris Krystof, focusing on themes of identity through performance and disguise. The exhibition showcases her 1994 video Dancing in Peckham, the 2010 performance Bully, and the photographic series Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say. It also features sculptures like Gervais (2010) and Terri (2008), celebrating everyday people. The display wraps up with self-portraits of Wearing as family members and notable photographers such as Andy Warhol and Diane Arbus. Simultaneously, from May 24 to June 24, 2012, Sara VanDerBeek will exhibit black-and-white photographs of Baltimore dancers and cast plaster sculptures at The Approach. Wearing's retrospective will later be shown at K20 in Düsseldorf and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.