© Jane and Louise Wilson 2010
Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane and Louise Wilson (b. 1967, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) live and work in London. Working together since the late eighties (from 1986 to 1989, Jane studied art at Newcastle Polytechnic and Louise studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, they both attended Goldsmiths College in London, receiving MA degrees in 1992), they have embarked on a collaborative career that uses photographs and films.
The twin’s work has been often centred on architectural ruins of modernity, abandoned buildings that are still “imbued with the presence and ideology of the original occupants”: the archives of the Stasi in East Berlin (the building has previously been used by the Nazis and Stain’s Russia), in 1997; the US military base at Greenham Common, in Berkshire, in 1999 (for which they were nominated for the Turner Prize in 1999); or, more recently, in 2010, the city of Pripyat, Atomgrad (Nature Abhors A Vacuum), which holds the abandoned nuclear facility of Chernobyl. Their work is held in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world. Recent exhibitions include Tempo Suspenso CAM Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal and Unfolding the Aryan Papers, CGAC Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2010 (solo), the Stanley Kubrick retrospective, LACMA Los Angeles, 2011-12, (group), The Toxic Camera, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 2012 (solo), Tomorrow was already here, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, 2012-13 and at 303 Gallery, New York, and Paradise Row, London, 2013 (solo).