In Context

How great to see photography outside of the gallery (!) -- these are from a house I happened to be in last week.
Starting with Karin Bubaš's Woman In Fog (2006) from the series Studies in Landscapes and Wardrobe which... 'takes its inspiration from Hitchcock and Antonioni...using nostalgia for films of the 50's and 60's to explore the tension that exists between the female figure and the environments they inhabit...how actress's costumes are key to delivering storylines and creating visual impact in film and photography...The voyeuristic placement of the camera creates a crucial tension between the women, their attire, the spaces they inhabit, and what they are looking at.'
I remember coming across that series online so it was nice to see a print in person and since it's framed without glass it was all the more painterly-like.

In the next room there was Scott McFarland -- an image that I remembered from a 2003 exhibit at the Contemporary Art Gallery. 'A large body of photographs detailing the interior and exterior of a rural cabin on BC’s Sunshine Coast. McFarland’s naturalistic staging and close cropping emphasized and valorized objects and personal artifacts accumulating within the cabin, and stress an ongoing relationship between the site and its depiction.'

(too many reflections in the glass, but it gives the idea...)