Curated by Isabel Carlos

The Wilsons possess an uncanny ability to elicit the historical and psychological reverberations of architectural space through their eerie, seductive, and hauntingly atmospheric film and video installations of sites such as the abandoned East German secret-police headquarters of Stasi City, 1997, and the ruined New Zealand hospitals of Erewhon, 2004— places that are decrepit, out of time. While the CAM exhibition focuses mainly on work produced in the past three years, “Suspending Time” will nonetheless be the largest survey of the sisters’ output to date, comprising several multichannel installations, including their most recent, Songs for My Mother, 2009, and five site-specific sculptures. Accompanied by a catalogue with texts by critic Mark Cousins, curator Isabel Carlos, and others, this show should be a primer for anyone interested in the elegant interweaving of real and depicted space by means of the moving image.

— Barry Schwabsky