Britta Baumann

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is a photographer and conceptual artist living and working in Lisbon (PT) and Wiesbaden (GER). She holds a BA in photography from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund and studied Multimedia Art at Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa - Faculty of Fine Arts. She is currently working on her master's degree in Photography. In masterclasses with renowned international artist, photographers and editors, she has been continually strengthening her photography skills for many years and working intensively on her portfolio. She works with own photographs, found footage, text and video and uses multiple experimental forms to expand the boundaries of visual art.

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TABULA RASA

TABULA RASA tells a cross-generational story of a woman and about the different roles she has taken on in the course of her life. It is about crossing psychological and physical boundaries and breaking with normative social rules and stigmas.

On the one hand, it is a reflection on the socially shaped ideal image of a woman and mother, and on the other hand, it is an attempt at a retrospective approach
to a mother who, due to early childhood separation, was neither emotionally nor physically present during her lifetime.

The book combines fragmentary found footage material of the family archive, collages and diary excerpts. It includes new photographic works with images of the hometown and, together with staged still lifes, creates symbolic visual worlds.
Tabula Rasa serves not only as a personal examination of identity, motherhood, and the process of coping with grief, but also as a contemporary German document for society as a whole.