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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Disturbing ideals at London’s Lisson Gallery. The Wilson sisters’ latest show veers between horror film and comedy. There’s a chunk of still photographs, but essentially they play around with the main focus of the show – a video installation piece, Erewhon, with screens on walls, ceilings and reflected in mirrors. (The best view is on the floor.)The film depicts lots of girls in old school exercise outfits – grey or black knee-length leotards with black popsocks – doing hilarious slow-motion “exercises” adapted from images of 1903 gymnasts. Expect lots of pointy toes and odd geometric positions. These images are interspersed with strange disintegrating buildings that appear to be off-duty hospitals or schools. The film, shot in New Zealand, explores a frightening government-sanctioned eugenics policy after WWI, where patients in sanatoriums and mental asylums were genetically experimented on in the search for a fit population. Utopian ideals never looked so disturbing. Jane And Louise Wilson: The New Brutalists is at the Lisson Gallery, London, until 24 June 06.
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comment by starmie
May 23, 2006
Kentucky Derby winner getting treatment for a broken leg:http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060... Could have been a picture in this exhibiton.
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