Whitney Hubbs
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DAY FOR NIGHT
There are many reasons why people steal – material
need, a feeling of entitlement, the gesture of rebellion.
Perhaps more enigmatic is why someone would feel
they have stolen, when nothing of substance has been
taken: the feeling that by finding something so precious
and otherworldly it seems impossible it could have
been paid for by currency or deed. Whitney Hubbs has
remarked that she “steals” moments by photographing
them. In her series, Day for Night (2008), Hubbs
assembles instants from her life in California and its
environs, documenting its experience to tell a story
made of memories. Her subjects — landscapes,
still lives, friends, light – evoke themes of sexuality,
loneliness, love, and vitality. Throughout all, memory
is ever fleeting as a source from which to make sense
of the present. Arraying her images in a grid, Hubbs
abandons the unfolding of linear narrative. Yet by
participating in the free range of visual associations
that the photographer provides, we form our own
narratives and thus bestow meaning to experience.
BIOGRAPHY
Whitney Hubbs was born in Los Angeles in 1977. She received
her B.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco
and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her
photographs of found and applied textual elements sited in an
ordinary residence, draw a heightened attention to the ways
meaning becomes inscribed to the conditions of our everyday
lives. She currently resides and works in Los Angeles.