The work of interdisciplinary artist Katherine Hubbard encompasses photography, performance, and text. Her works unfold at the intersections of embodiment, perception, and historical traces, with photography functioning not as an imaging apparatus but as a site of encounter. Her performances and installations cast doubt on the supposed neutrality of vision by bringing the politics of the gaze and the spatial conditions under which it occurs to the forefront. Rather than treating photography as a finished object, Hubbard traces it back to the processes that produce it gesture, exposure, positioning – and makes these visible in real time. Her use of the body – often her own – in relation to photographic apparatus and architectural space reveals the labor and subjectivity embedded in acts of looking. What emerges is not merely an image, but a choreographed negotiation between viewer, subject, and environment.
Hubbard’s practice owes its appeal to an insistence on slowness and rootedness. It resists the extractive logic of photographic documentation; instead, the lens becomes a relational tool that captures time, proximity, and shared responsibility. Her performances do not merely illustrate photography but stage its epistemological and ethical entanglements. The spaces she activates – galleries, wastelands, landscapes – are never neutral terrain, but are laden with condensed histories and bodily memories. In this way, Hubbard opens up photography as a permeable space where questions of visibility, queerness, and spatial orientation become sensually palpable. Her work explores not only what we see, but also how we relate to what we see – and how these relationships shape the conditions of knowledge.
The exhibition was developed in collaboration with Studio Voltaire, London, where a further chapter will be presented from October 7, 2026, to January 10, 2027. As part of this collaboration, the partners have commissioned new works by the artist.
