Jane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice

During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will draw on the sisters’ extensive research into the archive of film maker Stanley Kubrick, focusing on his unmade film, Aryan Papers.

Unfolding the Aryan Papers is a video installation centered around actress Johanna ter Steege who was originally cast as leading role in Kubrick’s film. The Wilsons mix contemporary footage of the actress with original stills taken by Kubrick as part of his rigorous preproduction process – as much a portrait of the actress as a study of Kubrick’s infamous method.

Alongside the video work will be a series of bronze replicas of yard sticks commonly used in film production, as evidenced in Kubrick’s original stills. Also on show will be a sequence of photographs taken in an antiquarian book shop in London, dedicated to esoteric and incomplete volumes – a direct reference to Kubrick’s archive and the unfinished film. [Andrew Cattanach]