Dagmar Haggenburg
photography - archives - artistic research - audiovisual - conceptual - ecology - media - nature - environment - publication - public space - writing
Dagmar Haggenburg (1991) graduated in 2014 from the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in Breda. The core of her work is an amazement at the need of man to shape his environment. Haggenburg sees its habitat - the Netherlands - as a landscape of individuals; handpicked, tolerated or created by man. In her work she tries to capture these individuals and investigate the reason for their existence. The work is a diverse universe of creatures: from the spectrum "unwanted nature" such as weeds to very cherished show pigeons. Through observations (in photography and film) and interviews she searches for answers to all her questions. How do we live together with other living things? Why do we value some forms of nature more than others? It is a broad investigation into our conscious or unconscious relationship to nature.