Habitat

Laura Bäcker's oeuvre serves as a surface for reflection between people and nature. She wants to create not only the connection, but rather the fusion of the human body with the environment in her photographs. The Rhine meadows near Speyer, where she spent numerous moments in her childhood and to which she has a deep connection, serve as her backdrop. Today, she uses the naive perspective of back then in the process of creating her works in order to bring bodies, materials and nature into harmony. This creates natural experiences for the viewer that appeal to different senses. With every work she has to react to the prevailing conditions, as the landscape is subject to the cyclical flow of high and low water. This creates ever new mystical places where the body and nature form a unity. Laura Bäcker deals with different body shapes in her works in order to show diversity as a part of nature. In addition, the drapery and the interaction of light and shadow play a fundamental role in providing an artificial counterpoint to raw nature that lies outside of the human.