Heidi specker biography
Heidi Specker, born , lives and works since in Berlin....
Heidi Specker has taken a photographic portrait of the Komische Oper Berlin, creating a special memento of this period in the opera's history.
Starting with her observant attentiveness and her precision in seeing, coupled with the montaging, grouping, and sequencing of the images created, since the 1990s Heidi Specker has been generating visual narratives that at once disassemble and reassemble, dissolve and recompile her spaces of interest through the images: architectures, urban spaces, gardens, portraits in the studio, journeys, living areas.
“Everyday things should appear strange, and much that seemed natural should be recognized as artificial,” wrote Bertolt Brecht. Thus, in her essayistically arranged series, Heidi Specker always also shows the access that she undertakes with and through her photographs, showing how she inscribes herself into a reality with these images, visually unleashing its poetics, but also sustaining its unfamiliarity, remoteness, and ambivalence in order to continually challenge the power of the images, whose effects we all share.
Here, her gaze is never immediate or direct, the objects hardly