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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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