FOTOGRAFIN

2018

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Verlag für Moderne Kunst

24 x 31.5 cm, 200 pages, English and German textISBN 978-3-903228-48-1

The catalog for the exhibition, in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of Heidi Specker and brings together important groups of works from the last 20 years. Rather than presenting her series’ chronologically, the images are sporadically combined. This brings the intertwining of their motifs and themes to the front and invites the viewer to delve into the layering of Heidi Specker’s vast oeuvre.

Fotografin

“Heidi Specker is one of the first photographers to have taken digital photography seriously as an artistic medium. The Kunstmuseum Bonn is now presenting a survey exhibition featuring 70 works.
The sleeve is too short, the waistband stretched out. The faded green of the sweater picks up the dusty tone of the 1970s chair seat. The hand beneath the sleeve is very pale, the nails rounded. Man? Woman? No idea. The head is cropped out, as are the black pant legs that extend beyond the edge of the image from the knee downward.”

Johanna Schmeller, Echt müde sind ihre Gesichter, Die Tageszeitung, 2018