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Jane And Louise Wilson, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1967, Jane and Louise Wilson have been working together ever since they submitted exactly the same material at their final degree shows – photographs where they appeared to be murdering each other – despite the fact Jane studied at Newcastle Polytechnic and Louise at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee.

Their latest exhibition in Scotland, and their first solo show at DCA, marries the chilling emptiness of Atomgrad (their recent photos of a former living complex within the Chernobyl exclusion zone) and Face Scripting: What Did The Building See? (an "investigation" into the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai). It is the latest in a long line of politically inclined work that has found inspiration in everything from the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin to the once-graffitied Modernist Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, a new town in County Durham.