Young British Artists and
identical twins Jane and Louise Wilson collaboratively explore sites rich with
dark associations—ranging from former Nazi interrogation rooms to failed
examples of modernist urban planning—in multi-screen video installations and
photography. They are fascinated by altered states, paranoia, and lingering
energy in unpeopled spaces.
“A lot of our work has been about architectural,
psychological sites where the sense of space and place feeds down into their
own narratives, introducing a performative element in terms of a person or a
persona.”
Jane Wilson
Large-scale
photos of the broken and decayed World War Two bunkers that litter the Normandy
coastline of northern France form the basis of the series ‘Sealander’.
Devised by
Turner Prize-nominated twins Jane and Louise Wilson, the eight large-scale
photographs are part of a multi-screen installation called Sealander. The black
and white photographs are monumental and compelling, picturing edifices that in
many cases have become repositories for graffiti and litter and a space of
shelter for local tramps. They also occupy a space between land and sea,
carrying the very real scars of the battle to rid Europe of fascism, and for
the artists they now seem to defy any sense of time and place.
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