HUBBARD/BIRCHLER:
NO ROOM TO ANSWER
September 14, 2008–January
4, 2009
The Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes present an exhibition
of photographs
and videos by the collaborative artistic team
of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, their
first major survey in an American museum.
Hubbard
and Birchler’s signature works
from 1991 to the present are included in the
exhibition. The survey begins with the artists’ earliest
photographic series, which prefigured their videos,
and moves on to their works of the present day.
No Room to Answer examines Hubbard and Birchler’s
longtime interest in the early histories of photography
and cinema, which has provided them a unique
perspective on the medium of video. This exhibition
reveals how, by presenting picturesque, often
brilliantly saturated imagery in vaguely narrative
loops, Hubbard and Birchler create videos that
operate in an ethereal zone between realism and
reverie.
We
would like to extend a special thanks to Pro Helvetia
Swiss Arts Council, John and Julie Thornton, the
Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Alturas Foundation
for helping make this exhibition possible with
their financial support.
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