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Katherine Hubbard: A Contemporary Interdisciplinary Exhibition Exploring Photography and Performance at Secession

Explore Hubbard's practice where embodiment and vision meet historical traces, challenging the neutrality of the gaze.

The Secession hosts an insightful exhibition featuring the interdisciplinary work of artist Katherine Hubbard. Her practice uniquely explores the intersections of photography, performance, and text, inviting viewers to engage with profound questions about vision and perception. This exhibition delves into embodiment and the politics of the gaze, challenging established notions of how we interpret visual culture. Discover Hubbard's innovative approach to contemporary art.

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Exhibition summary

This exhibition at Secession features the interdisciplinary work of Katherine Hubbard, who explores the intersections of photography, performance, and text. Her practice questions the neutrality of vision and delves into the politics of the gaze and the conditions under which it occurs.

Curatorial context

The exhibition showcases the interdisciplinary practice of Katherine Hubbard, an artist whose work operates at the confluence of photography, performance, and text. Hubbard's creations delve into the interfaces between embodiment, perception, and historical traces, utilizing photography not merely as an imaging apparatus but as a site of encounter. Her performances and installations challenge the purported neutrality of vision by foregrounding the politics of the gaze and the spatial conditions that shape it. Rather than treating photography as a finished object, Hubbard reconnects it to the processes that generate it—gesture, exposure, positioning—allowing these to unfold in real-time. The use of the body, frequently her own, in relation to photographic apparatus and architectural space reveals the work and subjectivity embedded in acts of looking. The resulting works are not just images but choreographed negotiations between the viewer, the subject, and the environment. Hubbard's practice finds its appeal in its insistence on slowness and situatedness, resisting the extractive logic of photographic recording. The lens becomes a relational tool that captures time, proximity, and shared responsibility. Her performances do not illustrate photography but stage its epistemological and ethical entanglements. The spaces she activates—galleries, wastelands, landscapes—are never neutral ground but are laden with dense 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 the seen—and how these relationships shape the conditions of knowledge.

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Venue
Secession
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Jun 12, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026
Artist line / attribution
Katherine Hubbard was born in Philadelphia, USA, in 1981, and lives in New York, USA.
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