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Friday, 21 October 2011

(Environment Research) Jane & Louise Wilson Stasi City

Jane and Louise Wilson’s Stasi City is a psychological exploration of the mute, abandoned architectural spaces of the Stasi, the former headquarters of the East German secret police. For five minutes, a video camera slowly and deliberately pans through the building’s hallways and interrogation rooms, invoking the long history of abuses that took place there, as a human figure floats gently upwards unpinned from the laws of gravity. The four channel video installation is shown on opposite corners of the enclosed installation space, reinforcing a sense of confinement and surveillance.

Hospital Room 
Hohenschonhausen Prison 
1997, C-Type print
mounted on aluminium





Stasi City
1997, Installation View 
303 Gallery, New York (1998)
Photo_Theo Coulombe.

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