works 2010 - 2018

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Filmstills, Tate43.5 x 67 in (110.5 x 170 cm)
Filmstills, Tate
43.5 x 67 in (110.5 x 170 cm)
Filmstills, Grande43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Grande
43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Rialto43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Rialto
43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Wallace43.5 x 50 in (110.5 x 127 cm)
Filmstills, Wallace
43.5 x 50 in (110.5 x 127 cm)
Filmstills, Rig43.5 x 54 in (110.5 x 137 cm)
Filmstills, Rig
43.5 x 54 in (110.5 x 137 cm)
Filmstills, Mulkey43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Mulkey
43.5 x 63 in (110.5 x 160 cm)
Filmstills, Avalon43.5 x 76.5 in (110.5 x 194.5 cm)
Filmstills, Avalon
43.5 x 76.5 in (110.5 x 194.5 cm)

Filmstills, The End 2010 - 2011

Archival pigment prints, various sizes

Synopsis

The movie, its history, media characteristics and experimental possibilities form the core of Teresa Hubbard’s and Alexander Birchler’s artistic work. It is mainly the illusionistic moment, the ambivalent relationship of reality and fiction, which inspired several of their works. With Filmstills, they turn to the actual place at which reality and fiction merge – the reality of the place and its visitors and the fiction of the movie. The digital processing of the photographs as well as their sizes make the viewers perceive the cinemas as film-stills or clips from a movie… The artists’ subject is not the movie-theater as an architecture, but rather the auratic impact of the movie which transforms a place.

From, ‘Filmstills’ by Dr. Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Curator of Photography and New Media at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich