Jim Verburg

FOR A RELATIONSHIP
May 8, 2009 – June 27, 2009

WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary is proud to presend the Canadian artist  Jim Verburg in the ‘Ehegraben’ project space. The installation will consist of the much acclaimed short film ‘For a Relationship’ and the audio installation of the First Person Narrative Voice Over.

In this visually beautiful and daring work, Verburg sorts through 2 years of photographs to make sense of the relationships in his life. Sexual, romantic and familial ties blend together in this intimate reflection on the artist’s relationship with his practice, his lovers and his family. Jason St Laurent, Director of Programming, Inside Out  

A diaristic portrayal of ties with family, friends, and lovers. The piece focuses on Verburg’s own passing life, which is summarized in quickly flashing photographic stills of vacations taken, sexual exploits, tender exchanges and conversations, and encounters with landscape. What emerges is a system of values, a life lived according to objectives, that the artist is eager to share. In the piece, his hopeful attempts at communication with his father are riddled with expectations, and are continually foiled. Mark Clintberg, Curator, Recovering Agnostic