IM GARTEN

2005

Sprengel Museum Hannover, Steidl Verlag Göttingen

28 x 24 cm, 98 pages
ISBN 3865211402

Front and back cover of IM GARTEN

Moving into my first studio in 2002, right behind the building there was the Grunewald forest. Nature was suddenly extremely present; the city receded to the edge of things.
I took pictures in the settlements of Bruno Taut. There were individual villas and vestiges of the American occupation. Upon looking at my pictures, I was struck how Berlin is embedded in a landscape.
I began to deliberately present nature and architecture in a comparative manner and concentrated on translating trees, buildings, surfaces, structures and forms. The pictures gesticulate with intensive coloration.
Light had become an important aspect. Light transforms colors into a moment; a few photographs accordingly resemble a scene.

Heidi Specker

IM GARTEN