Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler

House with Pool (Production Still), c. 2004

Digital print

22 x 32 in (55.88 x 81.28 cm)

Edition. Printer's Proof 1 (From the edition of: 2 PPs, 10 APs, 40 numbered editions)

$2,500

This production still by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler comes from their 2004 video of the same name, "House with a Pool." The video features two women occupying the same house but unaware of each other’s presence. While the women move around in the same space, they never meet, only conversing through the items they pass back and forth and gestures they share. A third person enters the space when the gardner arrives and “sees things that neither of the women seem to be aware of.” According to Hubbard and Bircher, “precise camera and audio work construct a suspenseful narrative loop where the viewer encounters a visual reordering of space that constitutes the emotional inside as physical outside and vice versa.”

About the artist

Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler

TERESA HUBBARD (Irish/ American/ Swiss, born in Dublin, Ireland 1965) and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER (Swiss, born in Baden, Switzerland 1962) have been working collaboratively in film, photography and sculpture since 1990. They live and work in Austin, USA and Berlin, Germany. In 2017 they were representing Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial in the exhibition curated by Philipp Kaiser, “Women of Venice.” Their work invites suggestive, open-ended reflections on place and cinema and is “propelled by the artists’ fascination with the open circuits of social life, memory, and history that sit just outside the frame of moving images.”1 Interweaving hybrid forms of storytelling, their work explores “the ways film’s past-tense fictions permeate real geographies in the present.”2 Hubbard / Birchler’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian, Washington D. C.; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; National Museum of Art Osaka and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.