Atelier Heidi Linck

“Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.”

Gaston Bachelard - The poetics of space

Hi, I am Heidi Linck

Inspired by my explorations of abandoned places, I create spaces that invite visitors to enter and dwell in silence, stillness, and mystery, and to wonder at what emerges from the shadows, on site and perhaps also within themselves.

Photoworks

The traces people leave behind, like holes in floors, corners between walls and fragments of use, are interiors that awaken my desire to explore and inhabit them. To imagine myself entering these micro-interiors, I translate them into architectural scale models as if they were rooms. These rooms have a use that is unknown, even to myself. My photographs place these rooms in the tranquillity of the night, where they invite the viewer to shelter, to store their secrets and to dream.

Site-specific projects

In a built environment constantly in transition, places are abandoned as they are no longer used or inhabited. Their bodies remain standing quietly in our landscape. It is precisely in these in-between spaces, where old uses have vanished and new uses have not yet acquired meaning, that traces of social change, local histories, and human presence lie hidden. By transforming a lost space into a sculpture that may be entered, I aim to give room for communities to give the object a meaning that lies in the present and beyond any commercial, political or technical use. My practice is rooted in artistic research and operates explicitly in a site-specific manner.