Jane & Louise Wilson: False Positives and False Negatives

Jane & Louise Wilson
False Positives and False Negatives
Paradise Row

Jane & Louise Wilson, False Positives and False Negatives (16 screenprints on mirrored Perspex, 70x50cm), 2012

Jane and Louise Wilson's large-scale photographs arouses in me the same type of fascination, feelings and sensations, which, in the same way, I consider Tenochtitlan (the Aztec pyramids site North of Mexico City) as an attractive natural scenery to make love. Images of the expression of power, of man's intervention in nature, and the death and rebirth of those spaces through nature's repossession. Of cosmological energies being conducted to and into bodies laying down on the top of the pyramids, while waiting for a sacrificial death, in order to give birth to a new day. On those pictures, in particulary, in the Nature Abhors A Vacuum's series, they reveal abandoned interiors spaces - human constructions - that are being retaken and brought around to live by nature.

Jane & Louise Wilson, Atomgrad (Nature Abhors A Vacuum) III (C-type print mounted on aluminum with diasec, 180x220cm), 2010

«Jane & Louise Wilson's exhibition explores the act of surveillance, considering its form and presence in spaces burdened by potent histories.» [PR]

Jane & Louise Wilson, Blind Landing Lab (Lab 1) (cast aluminum and enamel plated), 2012

Jane & Louise Wilson, Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) #2 (black and white print with collage photographic elements, 38x38cm), 2013

«Jane and Louise Wilson (1967) were born in Newcastle and received their MAs at Goldsmiths College of Art, London. They began working together in 1989 and since then have exhibited at major galleries internationally. They were nominated for the Turner Prize in 1999. They have been in numerous solo and group shows internationally. 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, 2013 (solo). [PR]»