Studies in Landscapes and Wardrobe uses nostalgia for films of the 50’s and 60’s to explore the tension that exists between the female figure and the environment they inhabit. It also explores how actress’s costumes are key to delivering storylines and creating visual impact in film and photography. The relationship between landscape and female figure is one that has been seen throughout art history, whether in film, painting or photography. It is an association that will forever be explored.”

In Karin Bubas’s recent body of work, Studies in Landscape and Wardrobe, she explores the pictorial integration of human form and psychology. Although the large-scale c-prints are framed, they lack glass. The removal of this physical barrier between the work and the viewer highlights a sense of voyeurism and intimacy. Bubas’s cinematographic approach is reflected in her distinctive positioning of the camera from behind the female subject, which creates a heightened feeling of suspense in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock. The tension arising from the placement of a lone figure within an expansive landscape reflects the influence of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Bubas's approach to photography plays on the ability to construct a narrative through a single image or series of images. As each of her photographs may seem to form an incomplete part of a story, the spectator is invited to supplement the creation of each image through the process of interpretation.

Karin Bubas lives and works in Vancouver where she graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her work was recently acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2005 Bubas received the Vancouver Arts Award.

http://www.karinbubas.ca