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Jane and Louise Wilson, Installation view 303 Gallery, New York, 1998
Jane and Louise Wilson, Installation view 303 Gallery, New York, 1998
Jane And Louise Wilson
Stasi City (Paternoster), 1997
C-type print mounted on aluminium
180 x 180 cms
70 7/8 x 70 7/8 ins
70 7/8 x 70 7/8 ins
From the edition of 3
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Provenance
Lisson Gallery, LondonDelfina Foundation, London
Exhibitions
Jane and Louise Wilson. Stasi City, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, travelling to Kunstraum München,Germany and Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland., 1997-8Jane and Louise Wilson. Stasi City’ 303 Gallery, New York, U.S.A, 1998
Jane & Louise Wilson, Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, 1999
Literature
Jane and Louise Wilson, Stasi City, Kunstverein Hannover, 1997 (details illustrated full page on front and back cover, and full page inside (unpaginated))Neville Wakefield, "Openings: Jane and Louise Wilson", Artforum, October 1998 (illustrated and discussed pp.112-113)
Jeremy Millar and Claire Doherty, Jane and Louise Wilson, Ellipsis, 2000 (illustrated full page p. 55)
One of a small group of very enlarged photographs that relate to the Wilson's project in Berlin, which produced one of their most important film works. The Metropolitan Museum, New...
One of a small group of very enlarged photographs that relate to the Wilson's project in Berlin, which produced one of their most important film works.
The Metropolitan Museum, New York records the following: "Stasi City (1997) is widely considered one of the most important works of video art of the last half century, advancing the medium to a newly theatrical and immersive experience. Filmed during a fellowship in Berlin in 1996, this four-channel video installation is a dizzying tour of the former headquarters of the East German secret police (Staatssicherheit) housed behind a nondescript row of buildings in the former East Berlin."
MoMA, New York explains that it was "shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture."
We are grateful to Jane and Louise WIlson for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
The Metropolitan Museum, New York records the following: "Stasi City (1997) is widely considered one of the most important works of video art of the last half century, advancing the medium to a newly theatrical and immersive experience. Filmed during a fellowship in Berlin in 1996, this four-channel video installation is a dizzying tour of the former headquarters of the East German secret police (Staatssicherheit) housed behind a nondescript row of buildings in the former East Berlin."
MoMA, New York explains that it was "shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture."
We are grateful to Jane and Louise WIlson for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
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