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WHITNEY HUBBS
Body Doubles
March 19 – May 7, 2016
MB GALLERY
612 NORTH ALMONT DRIVE, LOS ANGELES
CALIFORNIA 90069
TEL 310 550 0050
FAX 310 550 0605
www.mbart.com
M+B is pleased to present Body Doubles, Whitney Hubbs’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will run from March 19, 2016 through May 7, 2016, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 19 from 6 to 8 pm.
Looking at pictures of women, as seen pulled back toward my eye, I see myself with them. I can’t help it. I parse their bodies, the forms. Not my own and yet familiar.
When I’m in front of the camera, my body is being looked at, is being performed, is being directed and recorded. It is being taken apart and pieced back together.
We repeat and repeat, the same scene, against the same wall, with the same lights. We write the body on a piece of film. Film that’s been pushed and prodded, mishandled and flipped. At a certain point I had to accept a bodily experience. It was pleasurable to look at their rough unpolished states, the bodies simply are: flipping, posing, being coy, arms as arrows, feet as poles, the lens as lover and mirror, the lens always looking back and being looked at, not by the face, but by the breasts, buttocks, heels, toes, shins, spines and throats, unhurried and happy to give that which can’t be taken.
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WHITNEY HUBBS Woman no. 2, 2016 © Whitney Hubbs, Courtesy M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
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