GOTHAM ART & THEATER
by Elisabeth Kley
Twins have a special insight into the uncanny, at least if you believe
Sigmund Freud’s famous 1911 essay of the same name, one of his few ventures into what he called "esthetics." The London-based twin sisters
Jane and Louise Wilson (who were shortlisted for the
Turner Prize in 1999) continue their exploration of claustrophobia and ominous emptiness in their current show at
303 Gallery on West 22st Street in Chelsea, with large photographs and a sound installation of church bells. Their earlier videos were set in authoritarian spaces that had been emptied of people, whether it was the abandoned and vandalized Stasi secret police headquarters in East Berlin or the closed-for-summer-recess British Parliament building.
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