Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler

Single Wide, 2002, video, 6:07 min, loop The work consists of one cyclical long shot screened in a loop. The viewers are presented with the rooms of a house trailer as well as its exterior. In the passing, the protagonist of the piece, a middle aged white woman, is presented wearing a plain flannel shirt, with blood dripping from her forehead. The formal cyclicality of the work undermines the linear quality of time and plot. Instead of a coherent, sequential narrative structure, an elliptic sequence of diverse moods is created, preventing a single dramatic climax that could have led to a resolution or account for the events. Created with intentional cinematic meticulousness, while ostensibly adopting the medium elements that generate emotional identification of drama and suspense, the piece concurrently manages to deconstruct these very apparatuses by isolating them and not providing any "logical" explanation for the events unfolding. Furthermore, it renders the architectural space a metaphor for a mental state. The violent act applied to the trailer (which symbolizes transience by its very nature) infuses the exterior into the interior and the public into the private. The work consciously alludes to antecedent works, such as Jeff Wall's The Destroyed Room (1978) and Gordon Matta-Clark's works presented in the museum's Capsule Room.

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Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler