The Swiss artist Leta Peer studied painting in Schule fur Gestalung in Basel, Switzerland. For Leta Peer the genre of painting is slower than photography but it has become the first methodological step in creating her work. Her active career is reflected in her photographic works which is overall a project that shows both pictures drawn and taken. The photographic manner she undergoes hence becomes her unique painting methodology.

In the beginning of 2005, Leta Peer traveled to Augsberg and there when she had visited the room which she was planning to have an exhibition, she came up with the title “To Inhabit a Place.” The artist took a photograph of the 18th century Rococo palace Schaezlerpalais which was being renovated. Afterwards she had combined the setting with her painting of the mountainous Swiss landscape which she had completed. She makes such a display in order to bring out the hidden but interesting dialogue between painting and photograph, and between nature and culture.

The artist puts herself in the spatial breadth of the place and works within its limited boundary. Also, before she includes herself in the architectural construction of space she tries to include herself in the pure moment that captures the situation she is mostly interested in, and also most appropriate for her. The sentimental element in the space defines the artist’s concrete experience. Furthermore, the mountain that is presented in her work is symbolically a peaceful and silent place.