The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler. Single Wide on view January 13–March 25, 2012.
Teresa Hubbard, American, born 1965, and Alexander Birchler, Swiss, born 1962; still from Single Wide, 2002; high definition video with sound; Image courtesy the artists and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s film Single Wide, the upcoming New Media Series installation, presents a gripping, though deliberately enigmatic, six-minute story. Shot on a meticulously staged set, the film offers a glimpse into the tormented life of a young woman living in a trailer home. Hubbard and Birchler’s production purposefully offers its audience a highly constructed setting in which detail and ambiguity is skillfully juxtaposed. The film’s intensity and brief yet seamlessly looping story entice viewers to watch Single Wide endlessly—identifying more clues with each pass, but coming no nearer to resolution.
Shot in 2002, Single Wide premiered in the United States in 2004 at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, and will be presented at the Saint Louis Art Museum for the first time as a fully remastered, high-definition video installation. – www.slam.org