KARIN BUBAŠ

Karin Bubaš, born in 1976 in North Vancouver, lives and works in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She studied at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and graduated in 1998. Bubaš has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably in Paris, Brussels, and Washington D.C. Known for her photographs, collages, and drawings, Bubaš explores the construction of gender in both fashion and art. Her practice is a conceptual interrogation of media that sets up an intersection between photography, film, advertising, and high art. In this hybrid space, she often stages women and asks questions about their role in the history of representation. Bubaš is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver. In the fall of 2023, Bubaš will have a solo exhibition at the Audain Art Museum.

Karin Bubaš’s Winter Scene at Alexander Falls explores the interpretation of landscape as sublime, yet frightening. The viewer, as well as the subject in the photo, is left vulnerable to nature’s power, represented here within the rapid movement of the waterfall and the unique zig-zagging pattern of the ice, water, and rocks. This photograph was taken at Alexander Falls, just south of Whistler, BC. The image largely plays on the contrast between light and dark. This contrast is compounded by the softness of the snow against the jagged hardness of the ice and rock. Nodding to the atmospheric vistas painted by J. M. W. Turner, such as The Falls of the Reichenbach, Winter Scene at Alexander Falls is also reminiscent of the photography of Ansel Adams, in which he references tourist attractions within a landscape.