Daša Geiger photographs friends in her adopted country Spain and contributes to the current discourse on body image in her generation.
With her images, she consciously opposes a culture that is structurally and individually shaped by controlling bodies and forcing them into a visually established corset. Is it possible to escape the omnipresent representations of commercialised beauty and the sexualisation of bodies? She sees the attempt to escape this gaze, to depict people outside this narrow framework and thereby to focus on their individual presence, as a subversive act.
Love to be a bird is a series with an urge for freedom and the establishment of new ways of seeing. The camera is a mirror in which the portrayed person can look at themself, question and re-evaluate their perception of the outside world, their view of themself and others.
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