Heidi Specker

Heidi Specker's (*1962) photographs are not images of reality; they do not document, but rather, through their artistic alienation, they show a sensual, poetic view of our world. Since the mid-1990s, the artist has been working with digital photography. She uses her camera to search for architecture and interesting structures, carefully scanning their surfaces and formations, selecting a section and then staging it on the computer using the possibilities of digital post-processing. In this way, the trunk of a tree becomes a sculpture, the structure of its bark a physiognomic expression, the façade of a building a pattern. 

In the series In the Garden, it is the interplay between nature and urbanity that is the focus of her interest. The result is a series of quiet, minimalist images of haunting beauty that relate the forms of the organic with the lines of man-made architecture. The three photographs from the Munich Re Art Collection were exhibited at the Haus der Kunst and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Brussels in 2006.