The photographs of Nathalie Grenzhaeuser depict a world that is based on reality and yet fantastic. Deserts, industrial landscapes void of humans, abandoned urban and rural spaces are common subjects in which she sounds out the relationship between humans and nature. The necessary space for a dialogue between association and memory is created in this staged bleakness and apparent "emptiness."

Grenzhaeuser’s photographs do not convey documentary images. They are created by means of an elaborate process: using various photographic sketches as her point of departure; individual moments and image landscape segments are digitally woven together and even “re-created” at times. The “original locations” of the given images are thus transformed through a series of many steps. Their quality is reminiscent of film or theater sets and they are often symbolic because of their narrative nature.

The image “Kapp Amsterdam“ is part of the series "The Construction of the Quiet World" in which Grenzhaeuser thematicizes the Arctic landscape. The images in this series were created during a two month stay by the artist on the Norwegian archipelago island, Spitsbergen. The work refers to the history of coal mining, the changes in the arctic landscape realm and its cultural-historical and emotional importance.

Nathalie Grenzhaeuser (b. 1970 in Stuttgart) lives and works in Offenbach a. M.