One and Two
2011
12th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
Galerie B 312
Curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs
September 9th to October 8th 2011

The 12th edition of Le Mois de la Photo à Montreal, in collaboration with Galerie B-312,
present the exhibition One and Two by Jim Verburg.

Jim Verburg is interested in the subtleties of human relations, especially the questions of intimacy and sexuality, and on what is often left unsaid in these relations. The videos For a Relationship (2006) and Family Album Number One (2009) unveil the shadowy aspects of his relationship with his parents and become the models for a space of liberation between two people. In the recent works of the exhibition One and Two, circles (found in nature, produced by the lens, traced, imprinted, superimposed, animated) stand in for human subjects and compose a set of theory relativized by unstable positioning, movement, framing, focusing, and perspective.

Untitled Photocopy (seventh year), 2011, photocopy. 244 x 162 cm

Untitled (15, 22 and now), 1992, 1999, and 2011, 19 x 25 cm, colour photograph over time

Untitled (Duo, from the series Access Study), 2010, projected still image sequence, various dimensions

Untitled (I forget you're trying to interpret all this as well), 2011, 91 x 61 cm (in 2 parts), blind letter press on Maidstone Noblesse cold-pressed cotton paper

Untitled (Zero Sum Game), 2011, folded newsprint publication in stacks, various dimensions

Untitled (What if all this adds up to nothing?), 2011, 91 x 61 cm (in 2 parts), mineral oil on wood veneer

Untitled (Diptych), 2011, 2 archival inkjet prints, 102 x 153 cm each

Untitled (from the series Access Study), 2010, projected still image sequence, various dimensions

Untitled, 2011, folded photocopy, 113 x 91 cm

Family Album Number One (Installation), 2009, 1 minute and 9 seconds, photocopied family photographs

For a Relationship, 2006, 4 minutes and 15 seconds, 2 years of still image